The generals : American military command from World War II to today /
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| Author / Creator: | Ricks, Thomas E. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Penguin Press, 2012. |
| Description: | 558 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8953475 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944
- Part I. World War II
- 1. General George C. Marshall: The leader
- 2. Dwight Eisenhower: How the Marshall system worked
- 3. George Patton: The specialist
- 4. Mark Clark: The man in the middle
- 5. "Terrible Terry" Allen: Conflict between Marshall and his protégés
- 6. Eisenhower managers Montgomery
- 7. Douglas MacArthur: The general as presidential aspirant
- 8. William Simpson: The Marshall system and the new model American general
- Part II. The Korean War
- 9. William Dean and Douglas MacArthur: Two generals self-destruct
- 10. Army generals fail at Chosin
- 11. O.P. Smith succeeds at Chosin
- 12. Ridgway turns the war around
- 13. MacArthur's last stand
- 14. The organization man's Army
- Part III. The Vietnam War
- 15. Maxwell Taylor: Architect of defeat
- 16. William Westmoreland: The organization man in command
- 17. William DePuy: World War II-style generalship in Vietnam
- 18. The collapse of generalship in the 1960s
- a. At the top
- b. In the field
- c. In personnel policy
- 19. Tet '68: The end of Westmoreland and the turning point of the war
- 20. My Lai: General Koster's cover-up and General Peers's investigation
- 21. The end of a war, the end of an Army
- Part IV. Interwar
- 22. DePuy's great rebuilding
- 23. "How to teach judgment"
- Part V. Iraq and the Hidden Costs of Rebuilding
- 24. Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and the empty triumph of the 1991 war
- 25. The ground war: Schwarzkopf vs. Frederick Franks
- 26. The post-Gulf War military
- 27. Tommy R. Franks: Two-time loser
- 28. Ricardo Sanchez: Over his head
- 29. George Casey: Trying but trading water
- 30. David Petraeus: An outlier moves in, then leaves
- Epilogue: Restoring American military leadership
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
