Generalship, historical perspectives.

From the Foreword: Throughout military history, historians, military analysts, and many others have found it difficult to define the qualities of generalship, commandership, and leadership-but most of us think we recognize these traits when we see them. Karl von Clausewitz cited military genius and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Center of Military History
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Fort McNair, DC : U.S. Army Center of Military History, [2008]
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Table of Contents:
  • Reflections on leadership / Robert Gates
  • Leadership / Omar N. Bradley
  • Leadership / Matthew B. Ridgway
  • Generalship : qualities, instincts, and character / Montgomery C. Meigs
  • Ike and his indispensable lieutenants / Martin Blumenson
  • Pershing-March conflict in World War I / Donald Smythe
  • Napoleon on the art of command / Jay Luvaas
  • Mentor : more than a teacher, more than a coach / Kenneth A. Jolemore
  • MacArthur's fireman : Robert L. Eichelberger / John F. Shortal
  • Learn to say 'no' to the admiral / George C. Dyer
  • Limits of American generalship / Wade Markel
  • Elihu Root and the general staff / Philip L. Semsch
  • Using history in military decision making / F. Freeman Marvin
  • Vignettes of military history, Military History Institute : How to be a General ; The education of a General
  • Whence Patton's military genius? / Roger H. Nye
  • Military education of Grant as a General / Arthur L. Conger
  • Toward an American philosophy of command / Harold R. Winton.