STAND OR DIE.

The article reports on the brilliant defense orchestrated by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker that saved South Korea during the Korean War. He ran the successful defense of the Pusan Perimeter in the first months of the Korean War, which gave the United Nations time to regroup and blunt the first communist military onslaught of the Cold War. It is noted that Walker proved that a mobile defense was doable and demonstrated how to execute it at Pusan.