Captain James H. Hausman and the Formation of the Korean Army, 1945-1950

Armed Forces & Society

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 503-539

  Millett, Allan R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84990361425     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X9702300401     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Cumings, Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 135-178. My basic source on the early years of the Korean armed forces is, however, Col. Huh Nam-sung, “The Quest for a Bulwark of Anti-Communism: The Formation of the Republic of Korea Army Officer Corps and Its Political Socialization, 1945-1950.” Ph.D. diss., The Ohio State University, 1987, which utilizes extensive Korean language sources and interviews, including Ministry of National Defense (Kukpang-bu), Haebang kwa kdn-gun [Liberation and the Establishment of the Army, vol. 1], Han'guk chdnjaeng-sa [History of the Korean War] Seoul: Kukpang-bu, 1967.
2. See William B. Hasseltine and Hazel C. Wolfe, The Blue and Gray on the Nile (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961) 253-260, on autobiographical data on participants; Donald M. Bishop, “Shared Failure: American Military Advisors in Korea, 1888-1896,” Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 58 (1983): 53-76.
3. Robert K. Sawyer, Military Advisors in Korea: KMAG in Peace and War (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1962, reissued 1988), 3-26.
4. The first director, Lt. Col. John T. Marshall, served from January 1946-March 1946. Barros shifted from director to advisor in September 1946.
5. Huh Nam-sung, “Quest for a Bulwark of Anti-Communism,” 115-130.
6. Koreans themselves called the Constabulary the T'ongwi-bu or “national defense force.”
7. Hausman interview, 1988; Huh Nam-sung, “Quest for a Bulwark of Anti-Communism,” 115-130.
8. Hausman interviews, 1988 and 1995.
9. Huh Nam-sung, “Quest for a Bulwark of Anti-Communism,” 115-162.
10. Gen. Paek Son-yop, interview, 1995. See also, Lee Young-woo, “The United States and the Formation of the Republic of Korea Army, 1945-1950,” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1984.
11. Hausman interview, 1995; Capt. J. H. Hausman to Chief PMAG-K, memo, “Staff Study on Plans to Increase Present Strength of Korea Constabulary,” 6 November 1948, copy provided by Lt. Col. Hausman; Huh Nam-sung, “Quest for a Bulwark of Anti-Communism,” 214-218.
12. Hausman interviews, 1988 and 1995; Lim Sun-ha interview, 1994.
13. Sawyer, KMAG in War and Peace, 96-113; Hausman interview, 1988.
14. Hausman interview, 1988.