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Why Truman's Defense Secretary Said the Navy Was Obsolete - Then Korea Started Six Months Later

In December 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson told Admiral Richard Conolly that the Navy was obsolete and amphibious operations would never happen again - drawing on declassified Pentagon records, congressional testimony from the Revolt of the Admirals hearings, Korean War combat reports from Task Force Smith and the Inchon landing, and TIME magazine coverage of Johnson's firing, this documentary examines why Truman's chief fundraiser who raised $1.5 million for the 1948 campaign got rewarded with the Secretary of Defense job, how he systematically dismantled the Navy and Marines while telling professionals their expertise was worthless, and why his catastrophic misjudgments left American forces unprepared when North Korea invaded just six months after he declared amphibious warfare obsolete. What happened when Johnson's budget cuts sent Task Force Smith to fight T-34 tanks with obsolete bazookas? How did the services he tried to eliminate prove him spectacularly wrong at Inchon? The consequences cost him his job four days after MacArthur's message that the Navy and Marines had never shone more brightly. George C. Marshall photo courtesy U.S. National Archives, CC BY-SA 4.0