Warriors and Scholars: A Modern War ReaderPeter B. Lane, Ronald E. Marcello University of North Texas Press, 2005 - 288 pages Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald Marcello have added helpful contextual and commentary footnotes for student readers. The papers, originally from the University of North Texas's annual Military History Seminar, are organized chronologically from World War II to the present day, making this a modern war reader of great use for the professional and the student. Scholars and topics include David Glantz on the Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; Robert Divine on the decision to use the atomic bomb; George Herring on Lyndon Baines Johnson as Commander-in-Chief; and Brian Linn comparing the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq with the 1899-1902 war in the Philippines. Veterans and their topics include flying with the Bloody 100th by John Luckadoo; an enlisted man in the Pacific theater of World War II, by Roy Appleton; a POW in Vietnam, by David Winn; and Cold War duty in Moscow, by Charles Hamm. This book pairs eminent military historians and veterans discussing key military engagements and themes, from World War II to the present. Inside are such illustrious names in military history as David Glantz (Soviet warfare in WWII), Robert Divine (decision to use atomic bomb), George Herring (Johnson as commander-in-chief), and Brian Linn (comparing occupation in Philippines 1899-1902 with current occupation in Iraq). Within each military period in question is a veteran's narrative account, giving an "I was there" perspective of the war being discussed. |
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... planned by the General Staff of the Stavka, or High Command, as it is called, and by Stalin, who played an active role in all this activity, just as Hitler did on the German side. Looking at the war campaign by campaign, first from the ...
... planned Soviet counteroffensives in June, July, and August 1941 in the teeth of Operation Barbarossa. Contrary to popular belief, throughout the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa, Stavka did indeed order its armies to conduct what ...
... planned to seize the strategic initiative : Hitler , obviously , because he was bothered by his failures with Barbarossa , and Stalin , obviously , because he was bothered by his failure to destroy at least a German army group in the ...
... planned follow-up operations, Jupiter and Saturn, but he only carried out one of those in abbreviated form. Of course, he pushed the German army to the limits of its endurance in the ensuing winter operations.8 We have heard for many ...
... planned, 31 percent fewer aircraft, and 42 percent fewer trucks and other vehicles as a result of the bombing. Denying these huge resources to German forces in 1944 greatly weakened their response to bombing and invasion, and ...
Contents
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THE EARLY COLD WAR | 102 |
THE KOREAN WAR | 125 |
THE VIETNAM WAR | 166 |
THE LATE COLD WAR | 206 |
TERRORISM | 227 |
Index | 275 |