In the school of war
By: Roger J. Spiller ; foreword by John W. Shy
Series: Studies in war, society, and the military
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780803228160
Description: Fort Leavenworth, where Roger J. Spiller taught the Army's finest for twenty-five years, is a "school of war." There, among military professionals who had experienced war firsthand, Spiller honed his skills as an analyst and historian, scholar and teacher. This volume brings together Spiller's original ... explorations of wars big and small and armies glorified and ignored. For each of these essays, whether on urban warfare or the Vietnam syndrome, battlefield psychology or the making of military history, and underrated vs. overrated generals, Spiller revisits his topic and his thinking, bringing fresh insight and a new context. This book reveals complex relationship between past and present in understanding nature of war--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-403).
Table of contents: title: Isen's run: human dimensions of warfare in the twentieth century; title: My guns; title: S.L.A. Marshall and the ratio of fire; title: The price of valor; title: Cherry blossoms falling: Japanese combat behavior at war's end; title: The psychological battlefield; title: War history and the history wars: establishing the Combat Studies Institute; title: Armies in history, history in armies; title: The Vietnam syndrome: a brief history; title: In the shadow of the dragon: doctrine and the U.S. Army after Vietnam; title: Urban warfare: its history and Its future; title: Overrated and underrated: general; title: Overrated and underrated: World War II general; title: War in the dark; title: A war against history; title: military history and its fictions; title: The Fuhrer in the dock: a speculation on the banality of evil; title: The real war: an interview with Paul Fussell; title: Rain stops play.