Studies in Battle Command - Softcover

Faculty Staff; Comabt Studies Instiute

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780392915 ISBN 13: 9781780392912

Verlag: www.MilitaryBookshop.co.uk, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Reprint of 1995 study. Contains a series of essays a series of essays analyzing various combat engagement and military leaders throughout history. They include examples of brilliant success and dismal failure. Most of all, they offer today's military professional perspective insight into the essence of their calling: command and leadership. Topics in this issue include: Gustavus Adolphus & the Crossing of the Lech, Frederick the Great and the Battle of Leuthen, Old Fritz Stumbles: Frederick the Great at Kunersdorf, 1759, Andrew Jackson's Iron Will in the Creek War, 1813-1814, Jacob Brown & Winfield Scott in the Niagara Campaign of 1814, Menshikov at Inkerman: A Failure to Command, Battle Command Incompetencies: John C. Pemberton in the Vicksburg Campaign, William S. Rosecrans & Battle Command Competencies, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger at Chickamauga, 20 Sept 1863, Senior-Level Leadership at the Battle of the Crater, intuitive Vision Versus Practical Realities: Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, William M. Campsey; Custer's Vision, Leadership at Plevna, 11-12 September 1877, The Rock of Gallipoli, Originality & Success: Lieut. Gen. Monash & the Battle of Hamel, Jul 1918, Seeing the Battlefield: Brigadier Gen. Norman D. Cota's Bastard Brigade at Omaha Beach, Harmon and Collins at the Bulge: Committing the 2d Armored Div., 22-28 Dec 1944, Eichelberger at Buna: A Study in Battle Command, Chen Yi and Deng Ziaoping Question a Mission, Douglas MacArthur & the Advance to the Yalu, Nov 1950, Invoking Force of Will to Move the Force, Capt. William E. Barber, Commander, Fox Company, 7th Marine Regt, Toktong Pass, North Korea, 27 Nov-2 Dec 1950, Military Operations Other Than War: Dominican Intervention of 1965-66.

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Biografía del autor

Jerry D. Morelock, PhD, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a 1969 West Point graduate who served 36 years in uniform in numerous command and staff positions. He is a decorated combat veteran whose military assignments included the Leadership Division of the Department of the Army general staff and the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. His final active-duty assignment was as the director of the Combat Studies Institute, the history department of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. As a military historian, he has authored several books and published over 300 articles in history journals and magazines. His writing awards include receiving the Arter-Darby Military History Writing Award for excellence in professional scholarship, winning the U.S. Field Artillery Association History Writing Contest, and selection as a Distinguished Essayist in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Essays on Strategy competition. After retiring from the Army, he was executive director of the Winston Churchill Memorial & Library at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri--the site of Churchill's famed 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech. He continues to serve as an adjunct faculty professor at Westminster College, teaching courses in history, political science, and American foreign policy. Since 2004, he has been the editor-in-chief of "Armchair General" magazine, the only military history magazine selected by the "Chicago Tribune" as one of its annual list of "50 Best Magazines in the World."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: www.MilitaryBookshop.co.uk
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1780392915
• ISBN 13: 9781780392912
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
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