The generals
Subtitle: American military command from World War II to today
By: Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780143124092
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Generals; History; Case studies; Military History; Command of troops
Description: An epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq.
Notes: Originally published by The Penguin Press, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944; title: pt. I. World War II : General George G. Marshall: the leader ; Dwight Eisenhower: how the Marshall system worked ; George Patton: the specialist ; Mark Clark: the man in the middle ; "Terrible Terry" Allen: conflict between Marshall and his protégés ; Eisenhower manages Montgomery ; Douglas MacArthur: the general as presidential aspirant ; William Simpson: the Marshall system and the new model American general; title: pt. II. The Korean War : William Dean and Douglas MacArthur: two generals self-destruct ; Army generals fail at Chosin ; O.P. Smith succeeds at Choisin ; Ridgway turns the war around ; MacArthur's last stand ; The organization man's Army; title: pt. III. The Vietnam War : Maxwell Taylor: architect of defeat ; William Westmoreland: the organization man in command ; William DuPuy: World War II-style generalship in Vietnam ; The collapse of generalship in the 1960s: At the top, In the field, In personnel policy ; Tet '68: the end of Westmoreland and the turning point of the war ; My Lai: General Koster's cover-up and General Peers's investigation ; The end of a war, the end of an Army; title: pt. Iv. Interwar : DePuy's great rebuilding ; "How to teach judgment"; title: pt. V. Iraq and the hidden costs of rebuilding : Colin Powell, Norman Swartzkopf, and the empty triumph of the 1991 war ; The ground war: Swartzkopf vs. Frederick Franks ; The post-Gulf War military ; Tommy R. Franks: two-time loser ; Ricardo Sanchez: over his head ; George Casey: trying but treading water ; David Petraeus: an outlier moves in, then leaves; title: Epilogue: Restoring American military leadership.