Military Misfortunes
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Rundstedt, Gerd von, 205
Russell, A. H., 152
Russian army, 15, 133
Sadat, Anwar el, 99–100, 116–18, 120, 122–24, 131
Sadek, Muhammed, 99, 116
Sanders, Liman von, 137, 143–44
Sari Bair, 140–42, 149
Saxe, Maurice de, 241
Scharnhorst, 27
Scheldt, 202, 212
Schweinfurt, 27
Sea of Marmora, 134
Sedan, 203, 219, 224, 230
Seine, 205
Seoul, 166, 168, 187, 194
Strategy, organizational dimension of, 57, 84–90, 230–33
Shalev, Aryeh, 105–7
Sharon, Ariel, 111, 124
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 244
Sherrod, Robert, 236
Shiloh, 244
Shirer, William, 198
Short, Walter C, 7, 30, 46, 51–53, 56, 232, 243
Siman-Tov, Binyamin, 115, 118
Sinai, 99, 108–10, 119, 128, 237
Singapore, 2, 31, 161
Sitwell, W. H., 144, 149, 158
Slim, William, 244–46
Smith, Oliver P., 172, 187
Smith, Walter Bedell, 170
Solomons, Battle of the, 42
Somme, Battle of the, 11, 205, 226
South African War, 136
Soviet Union, 3, 99, 102, 107, 115, 117, 119–20, 122–23, 127, 129, 173, 213, 231, 234, 238–39
role in Korean War, 176–77, 181, 194
Spanish Civil War, 213
St. Jean les deux Jumeaux, 222
Stark, Harold R., 7, 46, 52–53, 56, 67
Stimson, Henry, 47, 66
Stopford, Frederick William, 140–46, 148–60, 162–63
Strangle, 26
Suez Canal, 27, 95–96, 101–3, 107, 109, 111, 113, 117, 124
Suez front, 95–96, 99, 103, 238
see also Arab-Israeli wars, Yom Kippur War
Sun Tzu, 177–78
Suvla Bay, 133–34, 136, 139–46, 148, 150–54, 156–63, 240
Switzerland, 218–19, 222
Syria, 43, 95, 99–107, 109–11, 115–19, 121–23, 129
Systems, 22–23, 162–63
Tactics, 6–7
antisubmarine warfare, 68
Battle of France, 210–17
Korean War, 177–79, 184–85, 187–90
problems of in World-War I, 12–15, 150–53
Tahrir 41, 105–6
Taiwan, 171, 175, 180
Tal, Israel, 102, 106, 118
Tarawa, 236
Tekke Tepe, 145
Tetu, Marcel, 207, 222–23
38th Parallel, 43, 166, 171, 174, 194–95
Three Mile Island, 18, 22, 31
Thucydides, 35
Thummel, Paul, 219
Tours, 205
Travers, Tim, 13
Truman, Harry, 170, 179
Turco-Bulgarian war, 151
Turkish army
Gallipoli, 134–63
Korean War, 173–74
Turner, Richmond Kelly, 7, 77, 89
U-boats, 59–64, 67–82, 87, 91–93, 129
deployment patterns, 258n.29
Union Carbide, 30
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) : see Soviet
Union UN Command, 43, 166, 173–77, 179–80, 183–84, 189–90, 194
U.S.
air force, 26, 65, 81–82, 85, 187, 192: Fifth Air Force, 179 First Bomber Command, 82 Fourteenth Pursuit Wing, 51 Strategic Air Command, 192
army, 26, 43, 49–57, 165–95, 232 air forces (see U.S., air force), Eighth Army, 31, 34, 165–95, 232 Korean Augmentation to Army (KATUSA), 183–84 Second Infantry Division, 168, 170, 172, 182–83, 185–86, 188 Seventh Infantry Division, 166, 168, 182, 186 Task Force Faith, 186 Training and Doctrine Command, 238 Twenty-fifth Division, 188 Twenty-fourth Infantry Division, 165 X Corps, 166, 168, 172, 174, 182, 184, 186–87, 189
war college, 242
Civil War, 10, 235, 244
Department of State, Office of Chinese Affairs, 170
Joint Army-Navy Board, 67
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 166, 168, 170–71, 179, 183, 192, 194
Marine Corps, 43, 172, 174, 186–89, 193, 236 First Marine Division, 43, 166, 168, 174, 183, 186–94
navy, 14, 47–57, 59–94, 232–34, 242–43 bureaus, offices, and boards (Bureau of Ships, 74, 82 General Board, 88 Office of Naval Intelligence, 72, 82, 89–90) fleets (Pacific Fleet, 30, 48, 53, 55; Tenth Fleet, 90–92) sea frontiers and naval districts (Caribbean Sea Frontier, 60, 62, 91 Eastern Sea Frontier, 59, 60, 74, 79, 82, 84, 86, 91 Fourteenth Naval District, 53 Naval District Commands, 83)
Van Fleet, James, 189
Verdun, 214
Vincennes, 213, 221–23
conference at, 211
Vietnam War, 235
Vistula, 210
Vollmacht, 241
Vuillemin, Joseph, 207, 222–23, 227
Wake Island, 48
conference on, 179
Walker, Walton, 168, 172, 179, 189, 193
Weisungsfuhrung, 241
Wells, H. G., 12
Weygand, Maxime, 198, 204–6, 223–26
Wheeler, Hugh, 6
Winn, Rodger, 76
Wohlstetter, Roberta, 40
Wonsan, 168, 187
World War I, 5, 8, 10–16, 22, 27, 133–63, 233, 236, 240–42
Western Front, 5, 11–13, 136, 142, 150–51, 153, 155–56, 160, 233, 242
World War II, 14, 26–27, 30–32, 43, 46–58, 59-94, 118, 192–93, 234–36, 243–45
in the Pacific, 64–65, 74
Yalu, 31, 166, 169–75, 179–80, 189, 192
Yamamoto, Isoruku, 51, 86
Yariv, Aharon, 116
Zamir, Zvi, 105
Zeira, Eliyahu, 102, 105–8, 112–14, 116, 128
Zhukov, Georgi, 2 31
Zulus, 6
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Eliot A. Cohen is Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University. He came to SAIS in 1990 following service on the policy planning staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and previous teaching posts at Harvard University and the Naval War College. He is a frequent consultant to the Department of Defense and the intelligence community and is the author of, among other books, Supreme Command: Leadership in Wartime (Free Press, 2002).
John Gooch is a professor of history at the University of Lancaster, England. One of Britain’s leading military historians, he has also been a visiting professor at Yale and the U.S. Naval War College. The founding editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies and chairman of the Army Records Society, he is the author of a number of books, including The Plans of War and Armies in Europe.
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