Fighting the Cold War : A Soldier's Memoir /

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When four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man "without peer among living generals." In Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir, the celebrated soldier, scholar, and...

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Autor principal: Galvin, John R., 1929-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Galvin, John R., > 1929-2015.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
Generals.
Armed Forces > Officers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Military.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Guerre froide > Biographies.
Generaux > États-Unis > Biographies.
Cold War > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire militaire > 20e siecle.
United States > History, Military > 20th century.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Military history.
Biography
Autobiography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Pleasant Street
  • The flashing eyes
  • Shadows on the ceiling
  • The Pleasant Street army
  • If God was mad
  • My nine lives
  • Part II. Army life
  • West Point: a time for testing
  • Fort Benning: just like artillery, only bigger
  • Puerto Rico: schooling
  • Lanceros: continuen
  • 101st Airborne Division: Hato Rey
  • Fort Knox and Ginny
  • Part III. War
  • First Vietnam
  • Pentagon: the papers
  • Second Vietnam: all roads lead to Rang Rang
  • Part IV. Mixed command and staff assignments
  • The Fletcher School
  • Stuttgart: the big staffs
  • Belgium: Supreme Commanders Goodpaster and Haig
  • 3rd Infantry Division
  • 8th Infantry Division
  • 24th Infantry Division
  • VII Corps: warrior preparation
  • Part V. Southern Command
  • Southern Command, Panama
  • Honduras
  • El Salvador
  • Colombia
  • Part VI. Supreme commander
  • Buttressing
  • The White House and nuclear arms reduction
  • Conventional forces in Europe
  • WINTEX, the war game
  • Change: the right mix
  • The wall
  • A strategy for change
  • The First Gulf War
  • Red Square
  • The rescue of the Kurds
  • The new force structure
  • The coup
  • Part VII. Global perspective
  • Back to West Point, by way of Bosnia
  • Ohio State University and global strategy seminars
  • Back to Fletcher: leading and teaching leadership.

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