"Existing mobilization plans at the beginning of the Korean War, both for personnel and materiel, were all framed in terms of all-out war. The Department of Defense had no plans for limited war. Thus, the entire mobilization process was one of improvisation. The limited mobilization undertaken had to be aimed both at providing and equipping the necessary forces for fighting a limited war in Korea and at placing the United States in a posture to meet Communist threats on a world-wide basis." -- page 1.

Study dated 10 March 1959.