Command and Commanders in Modern Warfare: The Proceedings of the Second Military History Symposium - World War I and II, Leavenworth Clique, British Naval Leaders, Germany, Nazi Reich, American Navy

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique USAF publication presents the essays and commentaries from the Second Annual Military History Symposium held at the Air Force Academy, with fascinating material on the history of military affairs.

CHAPTER I - THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S EXPERIENCE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY * The Elihu Root Reforms and the Progressive Era * Russell F. Weigley * Commentary * Louis Morton * The American Military Generation Gap in World War I: The Leavenworth Clique in the AEF * Edward M. Coffman * Commentary * Daniel R. Beaver * The Leavenworth Clique in World War I: A Military View * Lieutenant Colonel William Geffen, USAF * Comments by Members of the AEF * Major General Howard C. Davidson, USAF (Ret.) * Major William A. Rafferty, USA (Ret.) * Major General Charles P. Gross, USA (Ret.) * General of the Army Omar N. Bradley * Major General Leroy H. Watson, USA (Ret.) * Major General W. E. R. Covell, USA (Ret.) * Colonel Howard Donelly, USA (Ret.) * CHAPTER II - BRITISH NAVAL LEADERS IN WORLD WAR I * Jellicoe and Beatty as Commanders in Chief, Grand Fleet * Arthur J. Marder * Commentary * Donald M. Schurman * The Military View: Comments by Members of the Royal Navy * Admiral Sir William James, G. C. B. * Rear Admiral S. A. Pears, C. B. E. * Rear Admiral C. M. Blackman, D. S. O. * Captain G. E. Bannister, C. B. E. * Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame-Graham, K. B. E., C. B. E. * Captain R. H. F. DeSalis, O. B. E., D. S. C. * CHAPTER III - THE END OF THE PRUSSIAN MILITARY TRADITION IN GERMANY * The Rise of the Military Opposition in the Nazi Reich * Harold C. Deutsch * Commentary * Charles V. P. von Luttichau * Commentary * Peter Paret * The Military View: Comments by Six German Generals * General Walter Warlimont * General Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg * General Hasso von Manteuffel * General Franz Haider * Field Marshal Erich von Manstein * General Adolf Heusinger * CHAPTER IV - AMERICAN NAVAL LEADERS IN WORLD WAR II * The Command Personality: Some American Naval Officers of World War II * E. B. Potter * Commentary * Raymond G. O'Connor * The Military View: Comments by Three Admirals * Admiral Arleigh Burke * Admiral Harry W. Hill * Admiral Robert B. Carney * Reply to Admiral Carney * E. B. Potter * CHAPTER V - NEW PERSPECTIVES IN WARFARE * The Combined Bomber Offensive: Classical and Revolutionary, Combined and Divided, Planned and Fortuitous * Noble Frankland * Commentary * Robin Higham * Commentary * Robert F. Futrell * The Combined Bomber Offensive: A British Comment * Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor * The Allied Combined Bomber Offensive: Two German Views * Field Marshal Erhard Milch, German Air Force, WW II (Ret.) * Lieutenant General Adolf Galland, German Air Force, WW II (Ret.) * Comments on Higham's Commentary * Air Vice-Marshal E. J. Kingston-McCloughry, RAF (Ret.) * Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker, USAF (Ret.) * Reply to General Eaker * Robin Higham * The German Fighter Battle against the American Bombers * Lieutenant General Johannes SteinhofI, Inspector-General, German Air Force

The advent of nuclear weapons has drastically altered the nature of modern warfare. For this reason the military profession finds itself today in the throes of a "second" military revolution. Both the military professional and the civilian policy-maker seek to find familiar landmarks to guide them through the new environment of the nuclear age which, because of the vastly changed military technology and its political consequences, remains largely a "terra incognita."

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