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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: generals
    sub title: American military command from World War II to today
  name:
    name part: Ricks, Thomas E.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: An epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq.
  table of contents: Prologue. Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944 -- pt. 1. World War II. General George G. 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 -- pt. 2. The Korean War. William Dean and Douglas MacArthur : two generals self-destruct ; Army generals fail at Chosin ; O. P. Smith succeeds at Choisin ; Ridgway turns the war around ; MacArthur's last stand ; The organization man's Army
  table of contents: Pt. 3. 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 ; 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 -- pt. 4. Interwar. DuPuy's great rebuilding ; "How to teach judgment" -- pt. 5 nd 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 -- Epilogue. Restoring American military leadership.
  note: Thomas E. Ricks.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Generals
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Command of troops
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Case studies
  classification: E745 .R53 2012
  classification: 355.0092/2 B
  identifier: 9781594204043 (hbk.)
  identifier: 1594204047 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2012015110
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120423
    record change date: 20150922150434.0
    record identifier: in00002782917