Genesis of Indirect Confrontational Bipolarity in the Korean War
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22480/revunifa.2020.33.217Keywords:
Korean War, Limited war, Indirect confrontational bipolarity, Reflex reverse asymmetryAbstract
This article seeks to analyze the emergence of the phenomenon called Indirect Confrontational
Bipolarity (and Reflex Reverse Asymmetry), whose genesis occurred during the Korean War. To this
end, it starts by addressing the Chinese role and the despised Soviet role in the Korean conflict,
going through the North American retreat in the confrontation and the clash between US military
leaders at the time (President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur), as well as through the
success of the strategy of using airpower against the numerical superiority of Chinese and North American ground troops, which ended up consolidating, in all its fullness, the new geopolitical and geostrategic
conception of “Limited War” and the Indirect Confrontational Bipolarity itself.
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