The Korean War’s Lessons for America’s Contest with China

Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, urges us to learn from a forgotten war.

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U.S. Army First Cavalry Division soldiers march down the main road to Pyongyang, October 19, 1950.

Sergeant N. Wyatt/National Archives

I was a bad pupil. Showed up late. Left early. Forgot my textbook. Barely spoke.

Fortunately, this was no ordinary class. There were no grades. And I was there merely to observe congressman Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) and Aaron MacLean of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies lead 20 students in a weeklong Hertog Foundation seminar on the Korean War.

Matthew Continetti

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Matthew Continetti

Matthew Continetti is director of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism.

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