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| Prologue: Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944 | |
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| World War II | |
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| General George C. Marshall: The leader | |
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| Dwight Eisenhower: How the Marshall system worked | |
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| George Patton: The specialist | |
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| Mark Clark: The man in the middle | |
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| "Terrible Terry" Allen: Conflict between Marshall and his prot�g�s | |
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| Eisenhower managers Montgomery | |
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| Douglas MacArthur: The general as presidential aspirant | |
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| William Simpson: The Marshall system and the new model American general | |
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| The Korean War | |
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| William Dean and Douglas MacArthur: Two generals self-destruct | |
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| Army generals fail at Chosin | |
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| O.P. Smith succeeds at Chosin | |
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| Ridgway turns the war around | |
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| MacArthur's last stand | |
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| The organization man's Army | |
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| The Vietnam War | |
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| Maxwell Taylor: Architect of defeat | |
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| William Westmoreland: The organization man in command | |
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| William DePuy: World War II-style generalship in Vietnam | |
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| The collapse of generalship in the 1960s | |
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| At the top | |
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| In the field | |
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| In personnel policy | |
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| Tet '68: The end of Westmoreland and the turning point of the war | |
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| My Lai: General Koster's cover-up and General Peers's investigation | |
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| The end of a war, the end of an Army | |
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| Interwar | |
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| DePuy's great rebuilding | |
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| "How to teach judgment" | |
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| Iraq and the Hidden Costs of Rebuilding | |
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| Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and the empty triumph of the 1991 war | |
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| The ground war: Schwarzkopf vs. Frederick Franks | |
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| The post-Gulf War military | |
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| Tommy R. Franks: Two-time loser | |
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| Ricardo Sanchez: Over his head | |
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| George Casey: Trying but trading water | |
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| David Petraeus: An outlier moves in, then leaves | |
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| Epilogue: Restoring American military leadership | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |