As difficult as the situation in Korea was, it's hard to imagine a commander better suited to handling it than Matthew Bunker Ridgway. Like MacArthur, he had literally spent his entire life in the ...

SCAP headquarters, in Tokyo’s Dai Ichi Building, is policed by members of General Matthew Bunker Ridgway’s Honor Guard—strapping six-footers, starched and polished, who stand their appointed ...