The Echo Of Battle
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The Echo Of Battle
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Author : Brian McAllister Linn
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
The Echo Of Battle written by Brian McAllister Linn and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons, doctrine, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee a future victory. In the face of radically new ways of waging war, Brian Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day. He explores the army's forgotten heritage of deterrence, its long experience with counter-guerrilla operations, and its successive efforts to transform itself. Distinguishing three martial traditions--each with its own concept of warfare, its own strategic views, and its own excuses for failure--he locates the visionaries who prepared the army for its battlefield triumphs and the reactionaries whose mistakes contributed to its defeats. Discussing commanders as diverse as Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Colin Powell, and technologies from coastal artillery to the Abrams tank, he shows how leadership and weaponry have continually altered the army's approach to conflict. And he demonstrates the army's habit of preparing for wars that seldom occur, while ignoring those it must actually fight. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, The Echo of Battle provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.
Echo 4
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Author : R C Le Beau
language : en
Publisher: Mermaid Publishers
Release Date : 2023-01-20
Echo 4 written by R C Le Beau and has been published by Mermaid Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-20 with categories.
RC LeBeau has done it again with his book, Echo-4. He has met the thousands of requests to write more about his Wartime experiences in Vietnam. His storytelling is unmatched by other narratives about the Vietnam War. Other well know authors have requested him to continue writing, and he has with Echo 4. This is a short story, a novel; it tells of the War through his eye, like a fine wine with an after thirst for more. His perspective tells the reader of Marines during a time of War that their jobs of what they are to do is primarily to keep other Marines alive one more day in the War. Humanizing the Marines' mystic behavior of conduct with just doing their jobs. All are Marines just the same, no matter their job position or rank; Officers to Enlisted Marines all have the Es Spirit of the Corps., which stays with them for life. Marines can be your best friend or your worst enemy; that is all up to you to decide which it will be, friend or foe. RC LeBeau, author, in just a few pages, will transport you into the Vietnam war. He pens down everything he sees, the emotion he felt then. Army, Marines, it has always been one team, one fight. In the battle of Echo 4, which he calls "Donut Hole." A little compound has been surrounded by the enemy, which is the Donut. But the enemy is also surrounded by the outside ring of the Donut. The enemies' task was to take down the city of Da Nang and the Airport in early February, 1968... As it turned out, Echo 4 was the enemy's unexpected little hornets' nest, as they thought it would be easy to do. You have to read this book to find out what happened to those 11 marines fighting to stay alive in the Donut Hole, Echo-4.
The Odyssey Of Echo Company
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Author : Doug Stanton
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-09-19
The Odyssey Of Echo Company written by Doug Stanton and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with History categories.
A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
Ripples Of Battle
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2004-10-12
Ripples Of Battle written by Victor Davis Hanson and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-12 with History categories.
The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative as he illuminates the centrality of war in the human experience. The Athenian defeat at Delium in 424 BC brought tactical innovations to infantry fighting; it also assured the influence of the philosophy of Socrates, who fought well in the battle. Nearly twenty-three hundred years later, the carnage at Shiloh and the death of the brilliant Southern strategist Albert Sidney Johnson inspired a sense of fateful tragedy that would endure and stymie Southern culture for decades. The Northern victory would also bolster the reputation of William Tecumseh Sherman, and inspire Lew Wallace to pen the classic Ben Hur. And, perhaps most resonant for our time, the agony of Okinawa spurred the Japanese toward state-sanctioned suicide missions, a tactic so uncompromising and subversive, it haunts our view of non-Western combatants to this day.
Echo Six Black Ops 6 Battle For Beirut
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Author : Eric Meyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Echo Six Black Ops 6 Battle For Beirut written by Eric Meyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Echoes Of Battle
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Author : Bushrod Washington James
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-18
Echoes Of Battle written by Bushrod Washington James and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-18 with categories.
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Echo Among Warriors
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Author : Richard Camp
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2022-02-02
Echo Among Warriors written by Richard Camp and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-02 with Fiction categories.
In this dramatic, action-packed novel of the Vietnam War, U.S. Marine troops encounter North Vietnamese soldiers in the jungle. In war, every action has a beginning and an end . . . Echo Among Warriors is a story of close combat between two opposing, equally committed adversaries. The powerful narrative immerses the reader in both sides of the battle, playing and replaying the same battle sequence from alternating viewpoints—through the eyes of the Marines and through the eyes of the North Vietnamese. The bullet fired from a Marine’s M-16 at a silhouetted enemy soldier crouched on the jungle path will in the next chapter tear into the flesh of that crouched NVA trooper. The story—unfolding from the initial contact to the final horrific ending—represents just one of perhaps thousands of deadly encounters that reflect the reality of battle—a mind-numbing, intensely personal experience that forever changes the participant. Praise for Echo Among Warriors “An intense, you-are-there, fictionalized consideration of close-quarters fighting during the American war in Vietnam. The final ten chapters are as realistically and breathlessly action-packed as you will read anywhere.” —The VVA Veteran “Incredible detail . . . great read. . . . I know once I started reading it, it would be non-stop, and it was.” —Major Fred Allison USMC (Ret).
The Echo
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
The Echo written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Religion categories.
Chasing Ghosts
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Author : John J. Tierney
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2006-10
Chasing Ghosts written by John J. Tierney and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10 with History categories.
Important military lessons for fighting today's insurgency in Iraq
Creating The Modern Army
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Author : William J. Woolley
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2022-07-21
Creating The Modern Army written by William J. Woolley and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-21 with History categories.
The modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior to World War I, officers in leadership positions were increasingly convinced that building a new army could not take place as a series of random developments but was an enterprise that had to be guided by a distinct military policy that enjoyed the support of the nation. In 1920, Congress accepted that idea and embodied it in the National Defense Act. In doing so it also accepted army leadership’s idea of entrusting America’s security to a unique force, the Citizen Army, and tasked the nation’s Regular Army with developing and training that force. Creating the Modern Army details the efforts of the Regular Army to do so in the face of austerity budgets and public apathy while simultaneously responding to the challenges posed by the new and revolutionary mechanization of warfare. In this book Woolley focuses on the development of what he sees as the four major features of the modernized army that emerged due to these efforts. These included the creation of the civilian components of the new army: the Citizen’s Military Training Camps, the Officer Reserve Corps, the National Guard, and the Reserve Officer Training Corps; the development of the four major combat branches as the structural basis for organizing the army as well as creating the means to educate new officers and soldiers about their craft and to socialize them into an army culture; the creation of a rationalized and progressive system of professional military education; and the initial mechanization of the combat branches. Woolley also points out how the development of the army in this period was heavily influenced by policies and actions of the president and Congress. The US Army that fought World War II was clearly a citizen army whose leadership was largely trained within the framework of the institutions of the army created by the National Defense Act. The way that army fought the war may have been less decisive and more costly in terms of lives and money than it should have been. But that army won the war and therefore validated the citizen army as the US way of war.