TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ricks,Thomas E.
TI  - The generals: American military command from World War II to today 
SN  - 9781594204043
AV  - 002 E 745 R539g 2012
U1  - 355.00922 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Primera Jornada de Catalogacion
KW  - Generals
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Command of troops
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Generales
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Tropas de comandos
KW  - History, Military
KW  - Historia militar
KW  - Siglo XX
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-532) and index; 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
ER  -