General William E. Depuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War by Gole, Henry G.

General William E. Depuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813125008)

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General William E. Depuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War by Gole, Henry G.

General William E. Depuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War

$45.00
General William E. Depuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War by Gole, Henry G.

General William E. Depuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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From the late 1960s to the late 1970s, the United States Army was a demoralized institution in a country in the midst of a social revolution. The war in Vietnam had gone badly and public attitudes about it shifted from indifference, to acceptance, to protest. Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams directed a major reorganization of the Army and appointed William E. DePuy (1919-1992) commander of the newly established Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), in 1973. DePuy already had a dist

Author: Henry G. Gole
ISBN-10: 0813125006
ISBN-13: 9780813125008
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2008
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.31w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/03/2008 pg. 21
By Henry G. Gole
By Henry G. Gole
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Henry G. Gole has taught at West Point, the U.S. Army College, the University of Maryland, and Dickinson College. He is the author of The Road to Rainbow: Army Planning for Global War, 1934--1940 and Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. In addition, he served as a rifleman in Korea and completed two tours as a Special Forces Officer during the Vietnam War.

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