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From: "Kevin Brooks"
Date: 12/18/2003 1:07 AM Central Standard Time
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Date: 12/17/2003 12:54 PM Central Standard Time
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john wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:36:32 +1000, Craig Welch

The fact of the matter is that the US and Great Britain supplied 99%
of the troops in Iraq.

The US and GB always supply the highest # of troops in any UN event.
That's
why
the other nations don't bother to.
--

I don't know the actual numbers, but I'd venture to say the Korean War
is
an
exception to that.

I doubt it. The US commitment to the UN forces in Korea was undoubtedly
the
single largest outside (perhaps) that of the ROK itself, and I'd be very
surprised if the other participating nations exceeded the number of
troops
sent by the UK, which provided two infantry brigades, an armored
regiment,
and three CS regiments (arty or engineers). The site I found indicates
that
the UK was indeed the top contributor outside the US and ROK:
http://www.rt66.com/%7Ekorteng/SmallArms/un.htm

Brooks


Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired


I was referring to the ROKs. The statement made was "The US and GB always
supply the highest # of troops in any UN event" and I was making an
exception.

I would not strongly disagree with you, but even then it might not actually
be completely correct, at least not throughout the war. IIRC by the time the
UN forces were settled in around Pusan the US was shouldering the burden of
a significant chunk of the perimeter, and the ROK Army, which had started
the war with some eight understrength divisions, had already lost some 76K
casualties. I don't have the raw numbers available, but I would imagine that
if you looked at the number of US troops in the fight shortly after the
Inchon landing, and maybe as late as the X Corps movement into the eastern
ports later, which was likely before the ROK's had a chance to flesh their
depleted forces back out, you'd find that the US was top dog. This would
have remained the case until such time as the ROK's could take advantage of
their restored recruiting pool from among those areas retaken from the
former DPRK forces that had occupied them. It may also depend upon what we
consider "troops"--IIRC the ROK's were in the situation of having to take in
recruits who were issued a rifle and uniform and sent almost immediately
into their line units.

Brooks

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired