From Patton to Petraeus: American Generalship and the Art of War Since 1941

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Notes

^1.Cloud and JaffeThe Fourth Star; TaaffeMarshall and His Generals; SorleyWestmoreland; SmithEisenhower; and KaplanThe Insurgents.

^2.Liddell HartThoughts on War, 230. Ricks's other books are Fiasco and The Gamble.

^3. See for example BacevichThe Limits of Power; CalleoFollies of Power; O'HanlonThe Wounded Giant; Allin and JonesWeary Policeman; and BrzezinskiStrategic Vision.

^4. For Marshall's ‘system’ see Taafe, Marshall and His Generals, 5–9, 318–19.

^5.ManchesterAmerican Caesar, 672.

^6.Shortal, ‘MacArthur's Fireman’, 124.

^7.BacevichThe Pentomic Era, 119–21, 125–7.

^8. Ibid., 125.

^9.McMasterDereliction of Duty.

^10. See Schandler, ‘America and Vietnam’; Andrade, ‘Westmoreland Was Right’; Prados, ‘American Strategy in the Vietnam War’; and Bergerud, ‘The Village War in Vietnam’.

^11.LuttwakThe Pentagon and the Art of War, 38.

^12.Bronfeld, ‘Fighting Outnumbered’; GoleGeneral William E. DePuy, chaps 14–15.

^13.Spiller, ‘In the Shadow of the Dragon’.

^14.NielsenAn Army Transformed, viii; LinnThe Echo of Battle, 216.

^15. See Kelly and BrennanAlien.

^16.ClarkThe Donkeys.

^17.Strachan, ‘The Lost Meaning of Strategy’.

^18.MansteinLost Victories.

^19. For a discussion of ‘vincible ignorance’ see Spiller, ‘The Small Change of Soldiering’, 171–73.

^20.Pike, ‘Conduct of the Vietnam War’, 110–11.

^21. See Biddle, Friedman, and Shapiro, ‘Testing the Surge’.

^22. See KaplanThe Insurgents.

^23. Ibid., 349–65.

^24.Ucko, ‘Whither Counterinsurgency?’, 71.

^25. See Kaplan's postscript in The Insurgents, 367–8.

^26. See Congress of the United StatesThe All-Volunteer Force, 6–36; Cancian, ‘The All-Volunteeer Force’.

^27.United States ArmyUnified Land Operations, 1–14; Benson, ‘Unified Land Operations’.

^28.Spiller, ‘In the Shadow of the Dragon’.

^29.Liddell HartThe Other Side of the Hill, 471. Emphasis added.

^30.WeigleyThe American Way of War, 365.

^31.BrodieWar and Politics, passim; Kolkowicz, ‘Intellectuals and the Nuclear Deterrence System’.

^32.ManchesterAmerican Caesar, 616–47. For limited war theory, see OsgoodLimited War; SchellingThe Strategy of Conflict; and Rosen, ‘Vietnam and the American Theory of Limited War’.

^33.KaplanThe Wizards of Armageddon, 254.

^34. Quoted in BradleeConversations with Kennedy, 122.

^35.Swain, ‘Filling the Void’.

^36. See CimbalaCivil-Military Relations in Perspective; OwensUS Civil-Military Relations After 9/11; FeaverArmed Servants; HerspringThe Pentagon and the Presidency; and Nielsen and SniderAmerican Civil-Military Relations.

^37.CohenSupreme Command, chap. 7.

^38.OwensUS Civil-Military Relations After 9/11, 51–62, 109–13.

^39.Knebel and BaileySeven Days in May.

^40.SorleyWestmoreland, 123–4.

^41. Quoted in MatloffStrategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 5.

^42.De GaulleThe Edge of the Sword, 103.

^43.SmithEisenhower in War and Peace, 760.