The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today - Hardcover

Ricks, Thomas E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594204047 ISBN 13: 9781594204043

Verlag: Penguin, 2012

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Thomas E. Ricks studied America's military leaders for three decades, and in his hands this story resounds with larger meaning: the transmission of values, strategic thinking, and the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails. Military history of the highest quality, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the difference between good leaders and bad ones.

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Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its Future of War” project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor ofForeign Policy magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blog The Best Defense. Ricks covered the U.S. military forThe Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat atThe Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he covered U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, including The Gamble, and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1594204047
• ISBN 13: 9781594204043
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
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