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The generals : American military command from World War II to today / Thomas E. Ricks.
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- ISBN: 9781594204043 :
- ISBN: 1594204047 :
- Physical Description: 558 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-532) and index. |
| Citation/References Note: | Bklst 09/15/2012 LJ 10/01/2012 PW 08/20/2012 Kirkus 09/15/2012 |
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| Subject: | Generals > United States > History > 20th century. Command of troops > History > 20th century > Case studies. United States > History, Military > 20th century > Case studies. |
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Table of Contents
The Generals : American Military Command from World War II to Today
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue: Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944 | p. 1 | |
| Part I | World War II | |
| 1 | General George C. Marshall: The leader | p. 17 |
| 2 | Dwight Eisenhower: How the Marshall system worked | p. 40 |
| 3 | George Patton: The specialist | p. 59 |
| 4 | Mark Clark: The man in the middle | p. 65 |
| 5 | "Terrible Terry" Allen: Conflict between Marshall and his protégés | p. 73 |
| 6 | Eisenhower managers Montgomery | p. 81 |
| 7 | Douglas MacArthur: The general as presidential aspirant | p. 96 |
| 8 | William Simpson: The Marshall system and the new model American general | p. 106 |
| Part II | The Korean War | |
| 9 | William Dean and Douglas MacArthur: Two generals self-destruct | p. 121 |
| 10 | Army generals fail at Chosin | p. 135 |
| 11 | O.P. Smith succeeds at Chosin | p. 150 |
| 12 | Ridgway turns the war around | p. 176 |
| 13 | MacArthur's last stand | p. 192 |
| 14 | The organization man's Army | p. 203 |
| Part III | The Vietnam War | |
| 15 | Maxwell Taylor: Architect of defeat | p. 217 |
| 16 | William Westmoreland: The organization man in command | p. 231 |
| 17 | William DePuy: World War II-style generalship in Vietnam | p. 241 |
| 18 | The collapse of generalship in the 1960s | p. 252 |
| a | At the top | p. 252 |
| b | In the field | p. 259 |
| c | In personnel policy | p. 274 |
| 19 | Tet '68: The end of Westmoreland and the turning point of the war | p. 285 |
| 20 | My Lai: General Koster's cover-up and General Peers's investigation | p. 293 |
| 21 | The end of a war, the end of an Army | p. 315 |
| Part IV | Interwar | |
| 22 | DePuy's great rebuilding | p. 335 |
| 23 | "How to teach judgment" | p. 354 |
| Part V | Iraq and the Hidden Costs of Rebuilding | |
| 24 | Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and the empty triumph of the 1991 war | p. 367 |
| 25 | The ground war: Schwarzkopf vs. Frederick Franks | p. 379 |
| 26 | The post-Gulf War military | p. 388 |
| 27 | Tommy R. Franks: Two-time loser | p. 397 |
| 28 | Ricardo Sanchez: Over his head | p. 410 |
| 29 | George Casey: Trying but trading water | p. 426 |
| 30 | David Petraeus: An outlier moves in, then leaves | p. 432 |
| Epilogue: Restoring American military leadership | p. 447 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 463 | |
| Notes | p. 467 | |
| Index | p. 533 |
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