The Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG) (officially United States Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea) was a United States military unit of the Korean War. It helped to train and provide logistic support for the Republic of Korea Army.
2. The Korean Military Advisory Group
(KMAG) (officially United States Military
Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea)
was a United States military unit of
the Korean War. It helped to train and provide
logistic support for the Republic of Korea
Army.
3. The Korean Military Advisory Group
(KMAG) (officially United States Military
Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea)
was a United States military unit of
the Korean War. It helped to train and provide
logistic support for the Republic of Korea
Army.
4. Following the end of World War II, the United States and Russia split up
the administration of Korea, with the United States taking charge of the
southern half. Beginning in January 1946, the U.S. military government in
the south began to form a Korean defense force, and 18 lieutenants from
the U.S. Army's 40th Infantry Division were tasked with organizing eight
Korea Constabulary Regiments (one for each province,) which were to act
as a police force. The Constabulary grew rapidly, from 2,000 men in April
1946 to 50,000 in March 1948. When the ROK declared independence on
15 August 1948, the Constabulary was absorbed into the Republic of
Korea Army, and the United States created a Provisional Military
Advisory Group (PMAG) to continue the work of training and advising the
fledgling South Korean military, led by Brigadier General William Lynn
Roberts.
5. The 100 American advisors in Korea, working under
the auspices of the Department of Internal Security
(DIS), were reassigned to PMAG at this time, and
the unit's roster was expanded.
On 1 July 1949, PMAG was redesignated the United
States Military Advisory Group to the Republic of
Korea (KMAG).
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on
25 June 1950, KMAG became the United States
Military Advisory Group, Korea, 8668th Army Unit,
under the command of the United States Eighth
Brigadier General Francis W. Farrell
Army. Brigadier General Francis W. Farrell took
command of the unit on 25 July. On 28 December
1950, it was renamed as the 8202nd Army Unit.
6. Dr. Shiela Miyoshi Jager of the Strategic
Studies Institute has supported using the
highly successful KMAG methods as a model
for the Multi-National Security Transition
Command - Iraq in its development of
the New Iraqi Army.
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3. Summers, pg. 161
4. Advising Indigenous Forces: American Advisors in Korea,
Vietnam, and El Salvador, by Robert D. Ramsey III, Combat
Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2006, page 21
5. Sawyer, p. 35
6. Stoker, p. 88
7. Dr. Shiela Miyoshi Jager. "Iraq Security Forces and Lessons from
Korea". Strategic Studies Institute. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
8. Sawyer, Robert K. (1963). Military Advisors in Korea: KMAG
in Peace and War. U.S. Department of the Army Office of
Military History.
Stoker, Donald J. (2008). Military Advising and Assistance:
From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815-2007. Psychology
Press. ISBN 0-415-77015-7. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
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