SGS Korean War

The war is remembered as the first high-intensity conflict of the Cold War, but generally little more.

Few people know that the first year of the conflict was a very fast-paced, blitzkrieg-like struggle, with a surprise Northern invasion in the early summer of 1950 and a UN counteroffensive in the fall and early winter, followed by an intense Communist Chinese-led counteroffensive in the winter and spring of the following year. Then, after this active phase, the mobile aspect of the war was erased from memory by months of stagnation and intense fighting along a rarely fluctuating line of fortified positions that reminded many of the trench warfare of the Great War. The hot part of the conflict finally ended in 1953 with the signing of an armistice, but the war was not officially over.