What was the goal of the United States leaders were trying to accomplish limited war?

Truman moved the US and the UN from fighting a war for a limited aim to waging a war for an unlimited political objective. He changed the political objective. Thus, he changed the nature of the war. ... Truman later insisted in his memoirs that everything he did in Korea was to prevent a Third World war.

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