Editing Albert Coady Wedemeyer (section)

==Postwar==
After returning from China, Wedemeyer was promoted to Army Chief of Plans and Operations. In July 1947, President [[Harry S. Truman]] sent Wedemeyer to China and Korea to examine the "political, economic, psychological and military situations." The result was the ''Wedemeyer Report'' in which Wedemeyer stressed the need for intensive United States training of and assistance to the Nationalist armies.

Wedemeyer's 1947 report painted a picture of the [[Chinese Civil War]] that was both opportune and dire. Chiang's armies were far better-equipped than their Communist adversaries (who had not yet received weapons and training from the Soviets in Manchuria), and pushing them back on all fronts, but ammunition, fuel, and spare parts were severely lacking. These had been promised by [[Lend-Lease]], but not delivered and still charged to Chaing's account. Thus, while the Nationalists had over 16,000 trucks virtually all of them were rendered inoperable, forcing his troops to march on foot. Ammunition shortages were also causing Nationalist divisions to lose battles, and Chaing's troops were forced to scavenge abandoned American dumps because no deliveries had been made. Even worse, much surplus weaponry and ammunition in the Pacific was being destroyed rather than utilized, and Chiang's government was charged exorbitant prices for what remained. For example, bazookas were sold to Greece at $3.65 apiece, while Chiang's government had to pay $162. For rifles, the price difference was $5.10 and $51, respectively. Ammunition cost differences were similar, China being charged $85 for 1000 rifle rounds and $95 for 1000 machine gun rounds, compared to $4.55 and $4.58 elsewhere. Wedemeyer recommended an immediate correction of these deficiencies and sending leftover equipment to China rather than blowing it up.

Lacking confidence in the Nationalist government caused by Joseph Stilwell and George Marshall's meddling, President [[Harry S. Truman]] not only rejected the recommendations in the report but also imposed an arms embargo against the Nationalist government, thereby intensifying the bitter political debate over the role of the United States in the [[Chinese Civil War]]. While Secretary of State [[George C. Marshall]] had hoped that Wedemeyer could convince Chiang Kai-shek to institute those military, economic, and political reforms that would create a Nationalist-Communist coalition, he supported Truman's view and suppressed publication of Wedemeyer's report, further provoking resentment by Nationalist and communist advocates both inside and outside the US government and the armed forces.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} The report was reprinted, however, in the 1949 [[China White Paper]].

Following completion of the report, he assumed command of the [[Sixth United States Army]] in [[San Francisco, California]]; in this capacity, Wedemeyer "thought of himself as cut off from further military policy making."<ref name="nytimes.com">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/20/obituaries/gen-albert-c-wedemeyer-92-noted-military-planner-for-us.html|title = Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, 92, Noted Military Planner for U.S.|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 20 December 1989 |page=D23 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

After the [[Chinese Communist Revolution|fall of China to Communist forces]], Wedemeyer would testify before Congress that while the loss of morale was indeed a cause of the defeat of the Nationalist Chinese forces, the Truman administration's 1947 decision to discontinue further training and modernizing of Nationalist forces, the US-imposed arms embargo, and constant anti-Nationalist sentiment expressed by Western journalists and policymakers were the primary causes of that loss of morale.<ref name="ewtn.com">{{Better source needed|date=July 2012}}Carroll, Ann W., [http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/FR89102.TXT ''Who Lost China?'']</ref>{{Better source needed|date=July 2012}} In particular, Wedemeyer stressed that if the US had insisted on experienced American military advisers attached at the lower battalion and regimental levels of Nationalist armies, as it had done with Greek army forces during the [[Greek Civil War]], the aid could have more efficiently been used. He also said that the immediate tactical assistance would have resulted in Nationalist armies performing far better in combat against the Communist Chinese.<ref name="ewtn.com"/>{{Better source needed|date=July 2012}}

Vice Admiral [[Oscar C. Badger II|Oscar C. Badger]], General [[Claire Lee Chennault|Claire Chennault]], and Brigadier General [[Francis Brink]] also testified that the arms embargo was a significant factor in the [[loss of China]].<ref name="ewtn.com"/>{{Better source needed|date=July 2012}}

In 1948, Wedemeyer supported General [[Lucius D. Clay]]'s plan to create an [[airbridge (logistics)|airbridge]] during the [[Berlin Blockade|Berlin Crisis]].<ref>D.M. Giangreco, D.M and Griffin, Robert E.;  (1988) ''[http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/BERLIN_A/PAGE_11.HTM The Airlift Begins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506092238/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/BERLIN_A/PAGE_11.HTM |date=2016-05-06 }}'' on [[Truman Library]] website, a Chapter section from: ''Airbridge to Berlin: The Berlin Crisis of 1948, its Origins and Aftermath.''</ref>

After the Communist victory in 1949, Wedemeyer became intimately associated with the [[China Lobby]] and openly voiced his criticism of those allegedly responsible for the Communist takeover of China. In 1951, after the outbreak of the [[Korean War]], Senator [[Joseph R. McCarthy]] said that Wedemeyer had prepared a wise plan that would keep China a valued ally, which it had been sabotaged: "only in treason can we find why evil genius thwarted and frustrated it." The evil geniuses, McCarthy said, included Marshall.<ref>Joe McCarthy, ''Major Speeches and Debates of Senator Joe McCarthy Delivered in the United States Senate, 1950–1951''. (1953) pp. 194, 264,</ref>

Wedemeyer became a hero to United States anti-communists, and gave many lectures around the country. After retiring as a [[lieutenant general (United States)|lieutenant general]] in 1951, he was promoted to full [[general (United States)|general]] by act of Congress on July 19, 1954.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

Wedemeyer was a segregationist who subscribed to [[William Shockley|William Shockley's]] views on race and intelligence. In 1956, he was a delegate to a pro-segregationist conference where Chief Justice [[Earl Warren]], who wrote the majority opinion for [[Brown v. Board of Education|''Brown v. Board of Education'']], was proclaimed an enemy of the United States. Speakers at the conference claimed that the country was facing a "Marxist-Zionist" takeover and equated desegregation to communism. In 1958, retired general [[George Van Horn Moseley]] wrote to Wedemeyer, complaining that President [[Eisenhower]] had refused to link Jewish Americans to the threat of world communism. Wedemeyer agreed, claiming that the United States would likely "be destroyed from within."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kastenberg |first=Joshua |date=2021-03-01 |title=THE CRISIS OF JUNE 2020: THE CASE OF THE RETIRED GENERALS AND ADMIRALS AND THE CLARION CALLS OF THEIR CRITICS IN LEX NON SCRIPTA (HISTORIC) PERSPECTIVE |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol99/iss3/3/ |journal=Nebraska Law Review |volume=99 |issue=3 |pages=429-430}}</ref>

In 1957, Wedemeyer was affiliated with the [[National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena]]. On May 23, 1985, he was presented with the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by President [[Ronald Reagan]].

In the 1970s, Wedemeyer became convinced that Jews controlled the media, were manipulating Americans, and controlling U.S. foreign policy. He and a colleague kept a list of senators who had "sold out" to the [[Israel lobby in the United States|Israel lobby]]. Wedemeyer became convinced that the only way to break the grip of Jews and blacks on American society was to deport Jews to Russia and black people to Africa.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bendersky |first=Joseph W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m0-wIyPkTwwC&q=hagood#v=snippet&q=hagood&f=false |title=The Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army |date=2008-01-07 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-01219-0 |pages=429-430 |language=en}}</ref>