General Fox Conner

General Fox Conner
Title General Fox Conner PDF eBook
Author Steven Rabalais
Publisher Casemate Publishers
Pages 353
Release 2016-11-30
Genre History
ISBN 1612003982

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Winner of the 2016 Army Historical Society Distinguished Writing Award. “Anyone interested in American military history will find it a treasure” (Karl Roider, Alumni Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University). During World War I, Gen. Conner served as chief of operations for the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. Gen. Pershing told Conner: “I could have spared any other man in the A.E.F. better than you.” In the early 1920s, Conner transformed his protégé Dwight D. Eisenhower from a struggling young officer on the verge of a court martial into one of the American army’s rising stars. Eisenhower acknowledged Fox Conner as “the one more or less invisible figure to whom I owe an incalculable debt.” This book presents the first complete biography of this significant, but now forgotten, figure in American military history. In addition to providing a unique insider’s view into the operations of the American high command during World War I, General Fox Conner also tells the story of an interesting life. Conner felt a calling to military service, although his father had been blinded during the Civil War. From humble beginnings in rural Mississippi, Conner became one of the army’s intellectuals. During the 1920s, when most of the nation slumbered in isolationism, Conner predicted a second world war. As the nation began to awaken to new international dangers in the 1930s, Pres. Roosevelt offered Fox Conner the position of army chief of staff, which he declined. Poor health prevented his participation in World War II, while others whom he influenced, including Eisenhower, Patton, and Marshall, went on to fame. “A biography that is both dramatic and compelling.” —Mark Perry, author of The Pentagon’s Wars

Partners in Command

Partners in Command
Title Partners in Command PDF eBook
Author Mark Perry
Publisher Penguin
Pages 514
Release 2007
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781594201059

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A military analyst delivers a revelatory account of the remarkable, evolving relationship forged between George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower during World War II and into the Cold War.

Eisenhower

Eisenhower
Title Eisenhower PDF eBook
Author Jean Edward Smith
Publisher Random House Incorporated
Pages 977
Release 2012
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 140006693X

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In his magisterial bestseller "FDR," Smith provided a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's 34th president.

Eisenhower

Eisenhower
Title Eisenhower PDF eBook
Author Louis Galambos
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 297
Release 2018-01-20
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1421425041

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Part I. Getting a grip on Ike -- "Trouble"--"Abilene" -- "Locked in" -- "Epiphany" -- "Tested" -- Part II. Becoming supreme -- "Combat" -- "The decision" -- "Tested again" -- Part III. Becoming a leader of the free world -- "Duty, honor, party" -- "Pursuing prosperity, 1953-1961" -- "Pursuing peace, 1953-1961" -- "The wise man

War by Land, Sea, and Air

War by Land, Sea, and Air
Title War by Land, Sea, and Air PDF eBook
Author David Jablonsky
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 400
Release 2010-03-23
Genre History
ISBN 0300155689

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In this book a retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower’s lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower’s career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower’s efforts to implement a unified command in the U.S. military—a concept that eventually led to the current organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and that, almost three decades after Eisenhower’s presidency, played a major role in defense reorganization under the Goldwater-Nichols Act. In the new century, Eisenhower’s approach continues to animate reform discussion at the highest level of government in terms of the interagency process.

Toward Combined Arms Warfare

Toward Combined Arms Warfare
Title Toward Combined Arms Warfare PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher DIANE Publishing
Pages 235
Release 1985
Genre Armies
ISBN 1428915834

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The Art of Command

The Art of Command
Title The Art of Command PDF eBook
Author Harry Laver
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 295
Release 2008-10-17
Genre History
ISBN 0813173124

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What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Colin Powell? That is the fundamental question underlying The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell. The book illustrates that great leaders become great through conscious effort—a commitment not only to develop vital skills but also to surmount personal shortcomings. Harry S. Laver, Jeffrey J. Matthews, and the other contributing authors identify nine core characteristics of highly effective leadership, such as integrity, determination, vision, and charisma, and nine significant figures in American military history whose careers embody those qualities. The Art of Command examines each figure’s strengths and weaknesses and how those attributes affected their leadership abilities, offering a unique perspective of military leadership in American history. Laver and Matthews have assembled a list of contributors from military, academic, and professional circles, which allows the book to encompass diverse approaches to the study of leadership.