Download or read book A Brief History of AMC and Biographies of the Commanding Generals written by United States. Army Materiel Command and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographies of the Commanding Generals written by United States. Army Materiel Command and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Acquisition in the Department of Defense written by Elliott Vanveltner Converse and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Acquisition in the Dept of Defense Vol II Adapting to Flexible Response 1960 1968 2013 written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Army Materiel Command Biographies of the Commanding Generals written by U.S. Army Materiel Command (1984- ) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Generals written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adapting to Flexible Response 1960 1968 written by Walter S. Poole and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of Air Mobility and Its Generals written by Laura L. Lenderman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility forces dominate air operations in the post?Cold War era, at least statistically. Colonel Lenderman examines this trend and
Download or read book Reflections of Former AMC Commanders written by Frank Schaffer Besson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes biographical information and transcripts from interviews with: General Frank S. Besson, Jr. General Ferdinand J. Chesarek, Lieutenant General George R. Sammet, Jr. and General Donald R. Keith.
Download or read book Memoir of Alexander Macomb written by George H. Richards and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George C Marshall Education of a General 1880 1939 written by Forrest C. Pogue and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) attended the Virginia Military Institute and was named VMI’s First Captain in his senior year, because of his character and sense of duty more than scholastic achievement. In 1902, while a second lieutenant, Marshall married Elizabeth Carter Coles. During World War I, Marshall demonstrated his superior skill for organization and leadership on the staff of General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in France. Between World Wars I and II, Marshall served as Pershing’s aide in Washington, DC, with troops in China, as an instructor at Fort Benning, Georgia, and at other posts throughout the United States. Marshall married Katherine Boyce Tupper Brown in 1930 after the death of his first wife in 1927. He commanded the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington between 1936 and 1938 and was appointed Army Chief of Staff by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 1, 1939. “Pogue and Harrison show admirably how Marshall’s early life prepared him for his later responsibilities — his beginning as a second lieutenant in the Philippines, his service on Pershing’s staff in the First World War, three years in China in the Twenties, his exceptionally influential term at the Infantry Training School at Fort Benning, a period organizing CCC camps..., a time in exile when MacArthur sent him to the Illinois National Guard, thereby, as Marshall thought, ending his career, until Pershing’s insistent pressure brought him back to Washington and Harry Hopkins, impressed by his cool efficiency, urged him on Roosevelt. Education of a General is carefully researched, well composed and judiciously written. The portrait of Marshall is sympathetic but by no means worshipful.” — Arthur Schlesinger Jr., New York Review of Books “A highly readable and thoroughly satisfactory biography that provides as full and definitive an account of the general’s career to 1939 as is likely to appear for a long time... The portrait that emerges from these pages is clearly that of an outstanding officer in both staff and command, with wide experience in a variety of posts and a record for performing the tasks assigned to him superlatively well... an outstanding work of scholarship and a definitive record of George Marshall’s early years.” — Louis Morton, The Journal of Modern History “This [book] will be interesting to the professional historian for its insights into the early career of a great soldier, for much new material on the development of the military profession in the first half of the twentieth century, and also for its methodology... No effort was spared to make the work truly ‘definitive’... a well- written volume that is, and will likely remain, the best thing on Marshall’s formative year.” — Harry L. Coles, The Journal of American History “Simplicity of tactics; training for the unexpected; regarding as more important knowing when to make a decision than what the decision should be — these, and the ability to command by obtaining assent rather than by exacting formal obedience, were qualities characteristic of Marshall’s own disposition. And they were tied up with the... conviction... that American Army officers must know how to command a citizen army... the present volume can help to explain why Marshall was a great war leader.” — Kent Roberts Greenfield, Political Science Quarterly “The volume traces in a superb and detailed manner the progress of the General from childhood to the time he assumed the duties as Chief of Staff, U.S. Army in 1939... This book is a most scholarly account of the trials and tribulations of an exceptional Army officer during the period prior to 1939, and clearly demonstrates how the right man got to the right place at the right time.” — Naval War College Review “A provocative history of the Army during the years of Marshall’s rise... Because this is a book rich in research and information it raises questions as well as answers them. It promises to be one of the few indispensable works on the modern American Army.” — Russell F. Weigley, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science “Pogue... presents logically the development of a junior officer... The annotations are bountiful and explicit, the bibliography of great value to historians, the persuasive rebuttal of widely circulated views of a decade ago most welcome. This well-organized and solidly written volume is good in itself and a welcome herald of the post-1939 volumes dealing with periods of great personal, national, and international controversy.” — Mark S. Watson, The American Historical Review “A work very much worth attention... Mr. Pogue’s book... is a fascinating story; it gives a detailed account of the way in which this rather cold and self-contained person became a gifted leader and master of men...” — Bruce Catton, American Heritage “This is a vastly thorough piece of research... a careful picture of the life and problems of an able American regular officer in the first third of the twentieth century.” — C. P. Stacey, International Journal “A book which resembles its subject in simplicity, directness, and thoroughness... This is an excellent example of military-historical writing, and an important contribution to the history of our times.” — H. A. De Weerd, The Virginia Quarterly Review
Download or read book Memoir of A Macomb the Major General Commanding the Army of the United States written by George H. RICHARDS (Captain.) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of Alexander Macomb the Major General Commanding the Army of the United States Classic Reprint written by George H. Richards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoir of Alexander Macomb, the Major General Commanding the Army of the United States The reader, it is hoped, will deem me excusable in having sprinkled this memoir with brief notices of those actors in the scenes described, whom the narrative natu rally and necessarily introduced. The delay which has taken place in the publication, occasioned by the pressure of my engagements, has not, of course, affected, 111 any degree, the verity of its state ments. Truth is the same, at Athens and at Rome, now and forever; and the truths, especially, of History, like Pyramidal Structures, tower through all time, and solidi fy by the accumulation of ages. They stand, mid the revolutions of human affairs, like fixed points in the hea vens, toward which philosophers and statesmen point their instruments of observation, and gather calculations for the expansion of science and for the conduct of na tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Biographies of the Commanding Generals written by U.S. Army Material Command (1984-) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COMMANDERS written by Lennart Svensson and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commanders is a collection of biographies about American generals. It takes a look at American history from the Civil War to the Gulf War by telling the stories of the generals commanding the wars - from Lee to Schwarzkopf. Written as popular history, each general is individually described. Author Lennart Svensson does everything from telling anecdotes, reflecting on culture, war and history, to musing over operational details, meticulously narrating each general's story. Commanders provides "good stories, well told" in the genre of the historical essay. At the end of the book there is also a chapter examining topics such as the mirroring of American wars in literature and film. As Svensson says in the introduction: "these are war stories, told by the fireside with a glass of whisky in the hand." The study includes the following generals: Robert E. Lee George G. Meade U. S. Grant Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson George B. McClellan George A. Custer John J. Pershing George C. Marshall Douglas MacArthur George S. Patton Dwight D. Eisenhower Omar N. Bradley Claire Lee Chennault James H. Doolittle Leslie R. Groves Charles E. Yeager Schwarzkopf
Download or read book Summary of Thomas E Ricks s The Generals written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-04T22:59:00Z with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The United States developed a superpower military under Marshall, and it has remained that way for the past seven decades. His concept of what makes a good general still influences the promotions today’s leaders give to younger officers. #2 George Marshall was the chief of staff of the US Army, and he was born in 1901. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1901, and he soon joined the Army, which had been recovering from its low ebb of the 1890s. #3 Marshall’s first encounter with the German army during World War I was in October 1917, when he went to France and spoke with General John Blackjack Pershing, the American commander in the war. Marshall tried to explain the situation, but Pershing blew up and dismissed him. #4 During World War I, General Pershing was extremely quick to remove generals who weren’t producing results, which was not an uncommon practice in American history.
Download or read book The American Generals from the Founding of the Republic to the Present Time written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
