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The U.S. Army Combat Historian and Combat History Operations (World War I to The Vietnam War) by Dr Kathryn Roe Coker; Jason Wetzel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The U.S. Army Combat Historian and Combat History Operations (World War I to The Vietnam War) about?
"How is history useful for an operational commander or to soldiers in general? What role does history have for doctrine and training to the U.S. Army as an institution? These are questions this book answers as the authors narrate the development combat historian and the evolving role of combat historians as they develop history into a useful tool for informing training, operations, and doctrine development."New York Journal of Books In World War I, Major General Pershing proposed the idea of establishing a historical office within the AEF headquarters. The War Department reorganized the General Staff to include a Historical Branch. Evidence shows that soldiers acting as historians went "down range," albeit not into combat. By World War II, the situation had changedwhether S.L.A. Marshall's popping out of a billet in Sibret as a shells exploded on the road; Forrest Pogue's typing "on a little camp desk under an apple tree;" Chester Starr's terrain reconnaissance in the Mediterranean theater, or Ken Hechler's command of a four-man historical team interviewing soldiers at the Remagen Bridge and searching through secret documentsthe World War II combat historians were there behind and
Who reads The U.S. Army Combat Historian and Combat History Operations (World War I to The Vietnam War)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dr Kathryn Roe Coker; Jason Wetzel
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781636243306
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, War & Espionage
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