We all know that MacArthur was a famous general in the U.S. military. At the end of World War II, his fame rose even more, and during the Korean War, the Landings at Inchon brought his fame to the peak. However, he did not even understand such important information about the entry of the volunteers into the DPRK, and after losing the battle, he did not know how many volunteers had come.
However, after successive defeats, MacArthur did not find reasons for himself, nor did he change much, but became angry and angry, pushed the responsibility to the US government, and even brazenly threatened to use the atomic bomb.
As a result, Truman could not see it anymore and directly replaced him, what was going on?
MacArthur was very arrogant, on the one hand, due to his personality, he was a person with an extremely complex and colorful personality, with arrogance, solipsism, good manner, vanity, and praise.
On the other hand, it is natural that behind him is the powerful US military, in his eyes, the Korean War with the participation of the United Nations army will be dominated by the United States, to put it bluntly, this war will end with the victory of the United States.
In fact, after the landing at Inchon, before the volunteer army entered the war, things were indeed developing towards his ideas, and the People's Army was gradually defeated and retreated, and it was almost defeated.
He did not take China seriously at all, nor did he care much about whether New China would enter the war or not, because in his eyes, the volunteer army should not take the initiative to make enemies of the United States. The arrogant MacArthur didn't even take the Soviet Union seriously.
Based on this, he seemed too indifferent to the entry of the volunteer army into the DPRK. If it is said that the US military did not find that there is any excuse for the volunteer army to enter the DPRK, then after the two sides fought, the US military also tasted the pain of defeat.
In the first engagement, the Volunteers shattered MacArthur's dream of ending the war before Thanksgiving. If the two sides were still in the tentative stage at this time, then the second engagement of the volunteers still won and recaptured Pyongyang.
Logically, at this time, MacArthur, as the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army, should have a clear understanding of the situation, but he did not. Faced with two defeats, MacArthur persisted, insisting on continuing to fight on the Korean battlefield. To this end, he made a speech to the outside world: "This operation is not an all-out offensive, but a kind of fire reconnaissance of the enemy's strength. ”
But while he was still throwing the pot, the third battle broke out. In this battle, the volunteer army even broke through Seoul and advanced the front line to the third and seventh lines.
However, this defeat made MacArthur completely lose his mind, and it can be said that he was blinded. He has always been proud and difficult to accept. He still wants to keep fighting, and his arrogance continues.
He even clamored for the use of nuclear bombs against the Chinese volunteers, and his relations with the White House fell to a freezing point. Truman could no longer accept such a man in North Korea, and if it was really because he expanded the scale of the war, it would be out of control, so the White House urgently replaced MacArthur.
The White House has given him no time to change.
Of course, even if MacArthur was still in Korea, I am afraid that he would not change much, which was determined by his character and pride, and he could always find an excuse for the three battles, and it could be seen that he could not change.