Note
1. David H. Petraeus, foreword to On the Frontier—Preparing Leaders … Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: CGSC, 1981–2006, by Ethan Rafuse (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2006), iii.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Bob Ulin of the Command and General Staff College Foundation, who played a key role in the genesis of this project. A special thanks to Foundation trustee Richard Brown and his wife, Christine, for financial support that made this project possible. We would also like to thank Stephen Wrinn of the University Press of Kentucky and Roger Cirillo of the Association of the United States Army for their support during the preparation of this book. For photos and archival material, special thanks go to the National Archives, Library of Congress, U.S. Army Center of Military History, National Museum of the Air Force, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Eisenhower National Historic Site, George C. Marshall International Center, George C. Marshall Research Library, Naval History and Heritage Command, and Virginia Military Institute Archives. We are particularly indebted to the Combined Arms Research Library and the Frontier Army Museum, both at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for material and photos from the early days of the Command and General Staff College.
Contributors
John M. Curatola is an associate history professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Before holding this position he was an active-duty Marine Corps officer; he retired in 2009 after twenty-two years of service, including deployments to Somalia in 1992 and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Curatola received a B.A. in political science from the University of Nebraska. He holds a master’s degree in U.S. history from George Mason University and a master of military arts and science in military history from the Army Command and General Staff College. He received his doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Kansas.
Joseph R. Fischer serves as a professor in the Department of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He received a B.A. in history in 1975 from the Pennsylvania State University and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry. In 1979 he returned to civilian life, earning a B.S. in secondary education and a master’s degree in history from Penn State. Soon after graduation, he reentered the Army and served as a company commander in 3rd Armored Division and later as an assistant professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Shortly after leaving West Point, he entered a Ph.D. program in American history at Penn State and received that degree in 1993. His last government assignment before joining the faculty at CGSC was as a command historian at U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In 2005 the Army recalled him to active duty, assigning him to serve as a historian in support of U.S. Special Operations Command for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Fischer is the author of A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign against the Iroquois, July–September 1779 (1997) and is the coauthor of a number of other works on the early republic and special operations.
Christopher R. Gabel received his doctorate from the Ohio State University. Since 1983 he has served on the faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Military History, specializing in the World War II era. His publications include The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 (1991); Seek, Strike, and Destroy: U.S. Army Tank Destroyer Doctrine in World War II (1986); and Staff Ride Handbook for the Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862–July 1863 (2001).
Jonathan M. House is the William A. Stofft Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. A graduate of Hamilton College, he received both his doctorate in French military history and his commission in the U.S. Army at the University of Michigan. As a career army officer, House served several tours as an intelligence analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After leaving active duty, he became the chairman of social sciences at Gordon College in Barnesville, Georgia, before returning to Fort Leavenworth to teach as a civilian. He is the author of Military Intelligence, 1870–1991 (1993) and Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century (2001), as well as several articles about the growth of the U.S. Army in the early twentieth century. He is also the coauthor, with David Glantz, of numerous studies of the Soviet-German conflict, most notably When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (1995).
Sean N. Kalic is a professor in the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Denver and received his doctorate in history from Kansas State University. Kalic is the author of a study of the development of U.S. national space policy entitled U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946–1967 (2012). He has also written Combating a Modern Hydra: Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism (2005).
Tony R. Mullis is an associate professor with the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He served twenty-three years in the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence officer and retired in 2005. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas. His major fields include the history of the United States and military history. His secondary field is indigenous nations studies. He has taught history at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Mullis has also taught various U.S., Kansas, and diplomatic history courses as an adjunct with the University of Maryland in Korea and Scotland and with Troy University, Benedictine College, Tiffin University, and Auburn University at Montgomery. His has published various journal articles associated with Kansas and military history. His book, Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas, was published in 2004.
Ethan S. Rafuse is a professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in history from George Mason University and received his doctorate in history and political science from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of eight books, including McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union (2005) and Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863–1865 (2008).
James H. Willbanks is the General of the Army George C. Marshall Chair of Military History and director of the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He has been on the faculty since 1992, when he retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel with twenty-three years service as an Infantry officer in various assignments, including a tour as an adviser with a South Vietnamese regiment during the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive. He holds a B.A. in history from Texas A&M University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas. He is the author of Abandoning Vietnam (2004), The Battle of An Loc (2005), The Tet Offensive: A Concise History (2007), and Vietnam War Almanac (2009), and the editor of America’s Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan (2011) and The Vietnam War, a volume in the International Library of Essays on Military History (2006).
Index
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Page references given in italics indicate illustrations or material contained in their captions. Names of military units are alphabetized as spelled rather than by numerical order. For example, the 19th Infantry Division will appear before the 9th Infantry Division.
Abilene, Kans.
Abilene High School (Abilene, Kans.)
Abrams, Creighton
Admiralty Islands
African Americans
airborne operations
Air Corps Tactical School
Ai
r Force Relief Society
Air-Land Battle doctrine
air travel
Air War College
Alamo Force
Alaska, Arnold’s expedition to
Alexander, Harold
Algiers (Algeria)
Alice Springs (Australia)
Allen, Terry de la Mesa
Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA): challenges faced by; components of; MacArthur appointed supreme commander of; New Guinea Campaign (1942–1944)
Allied Naval Forces SWPA
American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM); map
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
Anderson, Kenneth Arthur Noel
Anderson, Orville A.
antitank development
Antwerp (Netherlands)
Anzio (Italy), Allied landings at (1944)
Ardennes Counteroffensive (1944–1945); maps
Ardmore, Pa.
Argentan (France)
Armored Force
armored warfare
Army Ground Forces (AGF)
Army Industrial College
Army Ordnance
Army Services Schools (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.)
Army War College (Washington, D.C.); Bradley as student at; Eisenhower as student at; Marshall lectures at
Arnold, Eleanor Pool (“Bee”; wife)
Arnold, Hank (son)
Arnold, Henry H. (“Hap”): Alaskan expedition of; as Army Air Corps chief; birth of; conflicts with superiors; death of; education of; exile posting of; family background; flight training of; flying accidents of; health problems of; as information chief; interwar career of; legacy of; MacArthur and; marital strife; marriage of; Marshall and; medals/awards received by; memoirs of; military aviator rating of; military education of; Mitchell court-martial and; nicknames of; Philippines assignments of; promoted to captain; promoted to colonel (temporary); promoted to five-star General of the Army; promoted to flag rank; promoted to General of the Air Force; promoted to lieutenant colonel; promoted to lieutenant general; promoted to major; promoted to major general; Roosevelt and; Signal Corps assignment of; Signal Corps flight school set up by; during World War I. See also Arnold, Henry H. (“Hap”), as Army Air Forces chief of staff
Arnold, Henry H. (“Hap”), as Army Air Forces chief of staff; appointment; atomic bomb decision and; B-29 bomber program; combat command assumed by; Combined Bomber Offensive; field visits of; health problems and; retirement of; Tokyo bombing campaign (1945); Truman and; war bond tours; workload of; at WWII Allied strategy conferences
Arnold, Herbert (father)
Arnold, John (son)
Arnold, Lois (daughter)
Arnold, Louise (mother)
Arnold, Thomas (brother)
Arnold, William (son)
Arsenal Barracks (Little Rock, Ark.)
Arter, Robert
At Ease (Eisenhower)
Atlantic Charter Conference (1943)
Atomic Energy Commission
Augusta, USS
Australia
Australiaew Zealand, and United States Pact (ANZUS)
aviation industry
B-10 bombers
B-17 bombers
B-24 bombers
B-29 Superfortress bombers
Bakerewton D.
Baruch, Bernard
Bastogne (France)
Bataan (Philippines)
Bataan Death March
Batchelor Field (Darwin, Australia)
Battle Monuments Commission
Bebee, Gene
Bell, J. Franklin
Belle Creamery (Abilene, Kans.)
Bender, Mark
Benning method
Bizerte (Tunisia)
Blamey, Thomas
Boise, USS
Bolté, Charles L.
Bonus March (1932)
Booth, Ewing E.
Bradley, John Smith (father)
Bradley, Kitty Buhler (second wife)
Bradley, Mary Quayle (first wife)
Bradley, Omar N.: appearance of; as Army chief of staff; autobiography of; birth of; on Chinese intervention in Korean War; early postings; family background; interwar career of; as JCS chairman; during Korean War; leadership style of; legacy of; MacArthur relieved of command by; marriages of; Marshall and; military education of; as military instructor; promoted to five-star General of the Army; promoted to four-star general; retirement/post-retirement career of; Truman and; as VA director; during World War I. See also Bradley, Omar N., WWII career of
Bradley, Omar N., WWII career of: Ardennes Counteroffensive; Eisenhower and; as First Army commander; Normandy breakthrough; Normandy invasion; North African Campaign; Patton and; personal firearm chosen by; promoted to four-star general; Rhine Campaign; as II Corps commander; Sicily invasion; as Twelfth Army Group commander
Bradley, Sarah Elizabeth Hubbard (mother)
Brereton, Lewis
Brett, George H.
Bristow, Joseph
British Eastern Task Force
British Eighth Army
British 50th Infantry Division
British 52nd Lowland Division
British First Army
British I Corps
British Second Army
British Second Tactical Air Force
British 6th Airborne Division
British 3rd Infantry Division
British XXX Corps
Brown, Allen
Brown, Katherine Tupper
Brown v. Board of Education
Bryden, William
Buckner, Simon Bolivar
Buhler, Kitty
Bulge, Battle of the. See Ardennes Counteroffensive (1944–1945)
Bull, Harold R.
Bulova Watch Company
Buna (New Guinea), Battle of (1942)
Burgess-Wright floatplane
Caen (France)
Camp Colt (Pa.)
Camp Dix (N.J.)
Camp Gaillard (Panama)
Camp Meade (Md.)
Camp Wilson (Calif.)
Canadian First Army
Canadian Royal Military College
Canadian 3rd Infantry Division
Capra, Frank
Carolinas Maneuvers
Carpender, Arthur S.
Carter, William G. H.
Casablanca (Morocco)
Casablanca Conference (1943)
Cavalry
Cavalry School
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Central Task Force
Chamberlain, Neville
Chandler, Charles
Chaney, James E.
“Chaumont gang,”
Cherbourg (France)
Chiang Kai-shek
China: Arnold’s flight to; intervention of, in Korean War; Japanese invasion of (1937); Marshall posted in; Marshall’s failures regarding
Chinese Nationalist Army
Churchill, Winston
Citizens National Army (Philippines)
citizen-soldier system
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Civil War
Clark, Mo.
Clark, Mark
Clemenceau, Georges
Coast Artillery
Cold War
Coles, Elizabeth C. See Marshall, Elizabeth Coles (“Lily”; first wife)
Collins, J. Lawton
Columbia University, Eisenhower as president of
Combat Command Reserve (CCR)
Combined Bomber Offensive
Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS)
Command and General Staff College. See United States Army Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.)
Command and General Staff College Foundation (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.)
Command and General Staff Officers Course (CGSOC)
Command and General Staff School. See also United States Army Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.)
Conner, Fox
Coolidge
, Calvin
Coral Gables, Fla.
Coral Sea, Battle of (1942)
Corregidor Island (Philippines)
Cotentin Peninsula (France)
Cowan, Arthur S.
Craig, Malin C.
Crete
Danville (Va.) Military Institute
Darlan, Jean-François
Dawley, Ernest J.
deception strategy
Dempsey, Martin
Denison, Tex.
Denver, Colo.
DePuy, William
Devers, Jacob
Dieppe (France) Raid (1942)
Dill, John
Dinant (France)
Doolittle, Jimmy
Doud, John
Doud, Mamie Geneva. See Eisenhower, Mamie Doud (wife)
Drum, Hugh A.
Dulles, John Foster
Eaker, Ira
Eastern Task Force
Economic Recovery Act
Eddy, Manton
Eichelberger, Robert L.
XVIII Airborne Corps
Eighth Air Force
Eighth Army
VIII Corps
8th Infantry Division
84th Brigaded Division
82nd Airborne Division
82nd Infantry Division
Eisenhower, Arthur (brother)
Eisenhower, David Jacob (father)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.: as Army chief of staff; birth of; career overview; childhood of; as Columbia president; Conner and; death of; education of; family background; farewell address of; as football coach; football injury of; interwar career of; leadership style of; as MacArthur’s military assistant; marriage of; Marshall and; Marshall’s correspondence with; medals/awards received by; memoirs of (see At Ease [Eisenhower]); military education of; military history interest of; as NATO commander; nominated for president; Patton and; Pershing memoirs and; personality of; as president; promoted to captain; promoted to five-star General of the Army; promoted to major; promoted to Third Army chief of staff; racial integration efforts of; reputation of; retirement of; Spaatz transferred by; sports interest of; Truman and; during World War I. See also Eisenhower, Dwight D., WWII career of
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