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050	1	4	_a002 E 745 _bR539g 2012
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100	1		_aRicks, Thomas E.
245	1	4	_aThe generals : _bAmerican military command from World War II to today / _cThomas E. Ricks.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2012.
300			_a558 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [467]-532) and index.
505			_aPrologue: 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.
650		4	_aPrimera Jornada de Catalogacion.
650		0	_aGenerals _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory, Military _y20th century _vCase studies.
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xHistoria militar _ySiglo XX.
650		0	_aCommand of troops _xHistory _y20th century _vCase studies.
650		4	_aGenerales _zEstados Unidos.
650		4	_aTropas de comandos
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