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By Ivan Eland, The American Conservative, March 30, 2026
Ivan Eland is a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute and author of War and the Rogue Presidency and A Balance of Titans: Peace and Liberty in the New Multipolar World.
Domestic pressures result in foreign adventures.
By 1950, the U.S. government had taken then-poor South Korea out of the U.S. defense perimeter. The United States had withdrawn its forces after the Second World War, because the Joint Chiefs of Staff became resigned to the fact that non-strategic South Korea would eventually come under the influence of the Soviet Union because of its proximity to the opposing superpower. This exclusion North Korea took as a green light to invade the South. In response, President Harry Truman panicked and, without getting a congressional declaration of war or any congressional approval, rushed U.S. air and naval forces to help the South Koreans and then later added large ground forces. ….
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