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Communist Logistics in the Korean War. By Charles R. Shrader. Westport Conn.: Greenwood, 1995. ISBN 0-313-29509-3. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Appendixes. Pp. xvi, 278. $58.00.
In June 1951, Brigadier General Darr H. Alkire confessed that: "It has frequently been stated by commanders in Korea that the one man they would like to meet when the war is over is the G-4 of the Communist forces. How he had kept supplies moving in the face of all obstacles is a real mystery." High and deserved tribute indeed, but General Alkire quite literally had not seen the half of it. Whereas in 1951 a Communist offensive would run out of supplies within six days, by the end of the war in July 1953, wellfed Communist troops could mount offensives that could extend for more than a month. In August 1951, Communist artillery ammunition expenditures were a mere 16,000 rounds; in July...