The Korean War

By Carter Malkasian

The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. Through the conflict, the West demonstrated its resolve to thwart Communist aggression and the armed forces of China, the Soviet Union and the United States came into direct combat for the only time during the Cold War.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Jun 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781472809940

Carter Malkasian

Carter Malkasian is currently the Chair of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, California. He has published several books, including the critically acclaimed The American War in Afghanistan: A History (Oxford University Press, 2021). He completed his doctorate on the history of wars of attrition, specializing in the Korean War, at Oxford University. CARTER MALKASIAN is an analyst at the CNA Corporation, a federally funded research and development center in Washington, D.C..

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