Getting it right American military reforms after Vietnam to the Persian Gulf and beyond
In February 1991 U.S. troops won the first battle of a war and did so with minimal losses. Remarkably, this had never happened before. Getting It Right is an insider's look at how this occurred. It covers subjects as wide-ranging and essential to the understanding of U.S. military affairs as th...
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New York
W. Morrow and Co.
1993
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Never Quite Got It Right
- Ch. 2. Lessons Learned - and Forgotten
- Ch. 3. The Army Gets Nuked
- Ch. 4. The Central Front Fixation
- Ch. 5. Vietnam: False Confidence
- Ch. 6. The Hollow Army
- Ch. 7. Reform
- Ch. 8. Reeducation
- Ch. 9. The Volunteers
- Ch. 10. New Ideas
- Ch. 11. Innovative Training
- Ch. 12. The Fat 80s
- Ch. 13. Proof of Performance
- Ch. 14. The Other Services
- Ch. 15. An Uncertain Future.