Ricks, Thomas E. <br/><br/>
The generals :  American military command from World War II to today / 
Thomas E. Ricks. 
 - New York :  Penguin Press,  2012. 
 - 558 p., [16] p. of plates :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-532) and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue: Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944 --  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 --  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 --  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 --  Pt. Iv. Interwar : DePuy's great rebuilding ; "How to teach judgment" --  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 --  Epilogue: Restoring American military leadership. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781594204043 0143124099 9780143124092 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012015110 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.<br/>Generals--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Command of troops--History--20th century--Case studies.<br/>Generales--Estados Unidos.<br/>Tropas de comandos
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History, Military--20th century--Case studies.<br/>Estados Unidos--Historia militar--Siglo XX.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>002 E 745  / R539g 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>355.00922