Warriors and Scholars : A Modern War Reader

by Lane, Peter B.

• ISBN13: 9781574411973
• ISBN10: 1574411977
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-08
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and the university. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting scholarship from eminent historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the war being discussed. Editors Peter B. Lane and Ronald E. Marcello have added helpful contextual and commentary footnotes for student readers. The papers, originally from the University of North Texas's annual Military History Seminar, are organized chronologically from World War II to the present day, making this a modern war reader of great use for the professional and the student. Scholars and topics include David Glantz on the Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; Robert Divine on the decision to use the atomic bomb; George Herring on Lyndon Baines Johnson as Commander-in-Chief; and Brian Linn comparing the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq with the 1899-1902 war in the Philippines. Veterans and their topics include flying with the Bloody 100th by John Luckadoo; an enlisted man in the Pacific theater of World War II, by Roy Appleton; a POW in Vietnam, by David Winn; and Cold War duty in Moscow, by Charles Hamm.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Dr. Alfred F. Hurley
SECTION I: WORLD WAR II, EUROPE
Fact and Fancy: The Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945	4	(24)
Colonel David M. Glantz
Life in the Bloody 100th	28	(19)
Major John H. Luckadoo
SECTION II: WORLD WAR II, PACIFIC
An Enlisted Marine's Perspective on the Pacific War	47	(17)
Corporal Roy Appleton, Jr.
B-29 Operations Against Japan: A Survivor's Story	64	(21)
Lieutenant David R. Braden
Ending the War with Japan: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bombs	85	(19)
Dr. Robert A. Divine
SECTION III: THE EARLY COLD WAR
Leadership During the Cold War: A Four-Star General's Perspective	104	(24)
General Russell E. Dougherty
SECTION IV: THE KOREAN WAR
The Korean War: Are There Still Military Lessons to be Learned?	128	(20)
Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons
Combat in Korea: Reflections by a Once Young Soldier	148	(21)
Colonel Henry G. Gole
SECTION V: THE VIETNAM WAR
The Reluctant Warrior: LBJ as Commander-in-Chief	169	(21)
Dr. George C. Herring
A POW in Vietnam: ``Smart People, Dumb War''	190	(17)
Brigadier General David W. Winn
SECTION VI: THE LATE COLD WAR
Cold War Duty as a Defense Attache in Moscow	207	(22)
Lieutenant General Charles Hamm
SECTION VII: TERRORISM
Old Whines in New Bottles: Some Thoughts on the Psychology of Terrorists and Terrorism	229	(25)
Dr. Norman Itzkowitz
Foreshadowing Postwar Iraq: The U.S. War in the Philippines, 1899-1902	254	(21)
Dr. Brian M. Linn
Index	275