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Military politics are mostly interlocking, and fighting a war is not a playhouse, and thinking about one is one play.
Around 1951, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly proposed to MacArthur the plan to send troops to Korea, and MacArthur strongly agreed with this matter, so he enthusiastically reported to the US government, but was refused.
When MacArthur was dismissed, Chiang Kai-shek pinned his hopes on Ridgway, repeating it three times, but without success.
Chiang Kai-shek was angry and frustrated, and bluntly said that the United States would not use troops, however, compared to Chiang Zhongzheng, who was a "micro-manipulator", did the United States really not use troops?
Thousands of miles away, remote control the current situation on the battlefield
Many generals within the Kuomintang were quite critical of Chiang Kai-shek's military talents.
At the time of the Northern Expedition, he won the battle, and Chiang Kai-shek at that time did not have so many stupid command behaviors, perhaps because he was on the battlefield in person, and his grasp of the current situation was quite appropriate.
But in the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly had a "micro-maneuver" style, sat in the Nanjing headquarters, and relied on telephone, telegraph and other means to manipulate the war situation in the air, resulting in him winning the title of "Gongdelin Admissions Director", and sending all the generals of the Nationalist Army under his command who were in a good situation to Gongdelin.
The most widely circulated story of Chiang Kai-shek's outrageous manipulation is his story with American General Stilwell.
China had sent an expeditionary force to fight against Japan in Burma in 43, and the United States sent Stilwell to take full command of it, but after arriving on the battlefield, the two had a disagreement.
Stilwell thought that Chiang Kai-shek did not understand the Nationalist army, and Chiang Kai-shek thought that Stilwell did not understand military affairs, so Chiang Kai-shek commanded the expeditionary force fighting in Burma from the air.
Stilwell told the troops to retreat, but Chiang Kai-shek asked the troops to stand by, one to the left and one to the right, and the final result can be imagined.
Therefore, after returning to the United States, Stilwell called the bald image of Chiang Kai-shek "peanuts", and every time he mentioned it, he would scold him.
Seeing the four crossings of Chishui, he began to compete for power
If Chiang Kai-shek knows his own problems, he must have understood something, after all, during the War of Liberation, in order to be able to carry out his generals' orders, Liu Zhi was sent to guard the key points.
Everyone else suggested sending a tiger general, or at least a fierce dog, but Chiang Kai-shek knew that capable people would not carry out his military micro-manipulation orders, so in the end only sent the "pig general" as commander-in-chief.
As for the reason why Chiang Kai-shek liked to interfere at a higher level, many people thought that it was because he was competitive and competitive, and after seeing Chairman Mao's outstanding military talent, they had a desire to compare.
He often compares his results with god-level tactics such as the four crossings of Chishui, in order to boast that he is not inferior to Chairman Mao, but his personal ability is limited, and he can only make some extremely ridiculous battlefield arrangements after all.
In addition to the shortcomings of these overstepping interventions, Chiang Kai-shek often considered only one of them militarily, and did not consider other deep-seated factors.
For example, his disagreement with the United States over the dispatch of the Nationalist army to Korea was caused by his narrow concept of the war situation.
domino effect
In the negotiations between the two sides, the US government never wanted the national army to join the battlefield.
If South Korea rejected them because they were afraid that their own achievements would be robbed, the United States itself did not need to be so narrow-minded, and what they were concerned about was always the confrontation with the Soviet Union, the confrontation between socialism and capitalism.
The Korean War was actually a prelude to the two-tier Cold War, so they would not agree to Chiang Kai-shek's request to send troops to Korea.
MacArthur first boiled down to two points regarding the disadvantage of the US military on the battlefield, one is that the Chinese army is too strong in its will to fight, and the other is that neither the United Nations army nor the South Korean army lacks combat experience with the Chinese army.
Therefore, he thought directly of the Nationalist troops stationed in Taiwan, and after getting in touch with Chiang Kai-shek, he raised the matter with President Truman, but was refused.
After MacArthur was dismissed, Ridgway took over the battlefield, and Clark was transferred to Tokyo, both of whom had the desire to send the Nationalist army to Korea.
One is because the troops of his teammate South Korea are too poor and can only escape, and they also affect Walker, and the other is that Japan feels that Japan is a bit unstable without the suppression of the American army, so he wants the national army to replace the American troops on the battlefield and let these American troops be stationed in Japan.
However, Truman refused, on the grounds that the strength and quality of the national army were too poor and would not be of much use on the battlefield, so it was better to strengthen the South Korean army.
The third time was when a new president came to power, and Clark mentioned the matter again, but was rejected on the grounds that he wanted to end the war as soon as possible and did not want to have more entanglements with the socialist camp.
To sum up, although the United States has a high opinion of the South Korean military, it still has a good grasp of the overall situation, and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is a historical process in the world, and the Soviet Union already possessed nuclear weapons during this period, but neither side wants to have close contact, so both sides are taking care of each other in the War of Liberation and the Korean War.
Taiwan itself belongs to the territory that China must recover, but due to the outbreak of the Korean War, Chiang Kai-shek settled down for a while, and now Chiang Kai-shek wants to go to Korea, and it is easy for the mainland to take the opportunity to take it back.
Therefore, when the island chain plan has begun to take shape, the control of Taiwan is the first priority that the United States attaches importance to.
And the national army and the volunteer army belong to the same line, if the national army joins, then China will devote itself to the Korean battlefield, and at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union will inevitably be involved in it, and no one wants to see the situation of the third world war.
Especially after the two sides have nuclear weapons, the national army is like a spark on the Korean battlefield, although it can shine for a moment, it will ignite a powder keg and move the whole body.
Resources:
Why did the United States refuse to send troops to Taiwan three times during the Korean War? This was the international strategy of the United States at that time
Korean War - Baidu Encyclopedia