The generals American military command from World War II to today

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History has been kind to the American generals of World War II and less kind to the generals of the wars that followed. Setting out to explain why, Thomas E. Ricks cites a widening gulf between performance and accountability. Then, scores of American generals were relieved of command simply for not being good enough. Today, as one American colonel said bitterly, "A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who lose...

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9781410454706

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Large print edition

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861 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

World War II
General George C. Marshall : the leader
Dwight Eisenhower : how the Marshall system worked
George Patton : the specialist
Mark Clark : the man in the middle
"Terrible Terry" Allen : conflict between Marshall and his protégés
Eisenhower manages Montgomery
Douglas MacArthur : the general as presidential aspirant
William Simpson : the Marshall system and the new model American general
The Korean War
William Dean and Douglas MacArthur : two generals self-destruct
Army generals fail at Chosin
O.P. Smith succeeds at Chosin
Ridgway turns the war around
MacArthur's last stand
The organization man's army
The Vietnam War
Maxwell Taylor : architect of defeat
William Westmoreland : the organization man in command
William DePuy : World War II-style generalship in Vietnam
The collapse of generalship in the 1960s
At the top
In the field
In personnel policy
Tet '68 : the end of Westmoreland and the turning point of the war
My Lai : General Koster's cover-up and General Peers's investigation
The end of a war, the end of an army
Interwar
DePuy's great rebuilding
"How to teach judgment"
Iraq and the hidden costs of rebuilding
Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and the empty triumph of the 1991 war
The ground war : Schwarzkopf vs. Frederick Franks
The post-Gulf War military
Tommy R. Franks : two-time loser
Ricardo Sanchez : over his head
George Casey : trying but treading water
David Petraeus : an outlier moves in, then leaves

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2012041296

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907404

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