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The Harmon memorial lectures in military history, 1959-1987 : a collection of the first thirty Harmon lectures given at the United States Air Force Academy / edited by Harry R. Borowski.

Contributor(s): Series: Special studies (United States. Air Force. Office of Air Force History)Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force, 1988.Description: xxi, 608 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0912799587
  • 9780912799582
  • 9780912799483
  • 091279948X
Other title:
  • Collection of the first thirty Harmon lectures given at the United States Air Force Academy
  • Harmon memorial lectures
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 355/.00973 19
LOC classification:
  • E181 .H27 1988
Online resources:
Contents:
Lieutenant General Hubert Reilly Harmon -- Part I. Military history -- Why military history? / W. Frank Craven -- The influence of air power upon historians / Noel F. Parrish -- Part II. Biography and leadership -- The military leadership of the North and the South / T. Harry Williams -- John J. Pershing and the anatomy of leadership / Frank E. Vandiver -- Leadership in the old Air Force : a postgraduate assignment / David MacIsaac -- Mr. Roosevelt's three wars : FDR as war leader / Maurice Matloff -- Pacific command : a study in interservice relations / Louis Morton -- George Washington and George Marshall : some reflections on the American military tradition / Don Higginbotham -- George C. Marshall : global commander / Forrest C. Pogue -- The many faces of George S. Patton, Jr. / Martin Blumenson -- Command crisis : MacArthur and the Korean War / D. Clayton James -- Part III. Soldiers and armies -- Soldiering in Tsarist Russia / John L.H. Keep -- The young officer in the old Army / Edward M. Coffman -- Perspectives in the history of military education and professionalism / Richard A. Preston -- Part IV : Strategy and tactics -- Napoleon and maneuver warfare / Steven T. Ross -- Problems of coalition warfare : the military alliance against Napoleon, 1813-1814 / Gordon A. Craig -- Strategy and policy in twentieth-century warfare / Michael Howard -- The historical development of contemporary strategy / Theodore Ropp -- The strategist's short catechism : six questions without answers / Philip A. Crowl -- Part V : Military thought and reform -- Innovation and reform in warfare / Peter Paret -- The war of ideas : the United States Navy, 1870-1890 / Elting E. Morison -- An enduring challenge : the problem of Air Force doctrine / I.B. Holley, Jr. -- Operation POINTBLANK : a tale of bombers and fighters / William R. Emerson -- The American Revolution today / John W. Shy -- Western perceptions and Asian realities / Akira Iriye -- Part VI : The military and society -- The military in the service of the state / John Winthrop Hackett -- The contribution of the frontier to the American military tradition / Robert M. Utley -- The end of militarism / Russell F. Weigley -- Military planning and national policy : German overtures to two World Wars / Harold C. Deutsch -- United against : American culture and society during World War II / John M. Blum -- Appendix : Harmon Memorial Lectures.
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Lieutenant General Hubert Reilly Harmon -- Part I. Military history -- Why military history? / W. Frank Craven -- The influence of air power upon historians / Noel F. Parrish -- Part II. Biography and leadership -- The military leadership of the North and the South / T. Harry Williams -- John J. Pershing and the anatomy of leadership / Frank E. Vandiver -- Leadership in the old Air Force : a postgraduate assignment / David MacIsaac -- Mr. Roosevelt's three wars : FDR as war leader / Maurice Matloff -- Pacific command : a study in interservice relations / Louis Morton -- George Washington and George Marshall : some reflections on the American military tradition / Don Higginbotham -- George C. Marshall : global commander / Forrest C. Pogue -- The many faces of George S. Patton, Jr. / Martin Blumenson -- Command crisis : MacArthur and the Korean War / D. Clayton James -- Part III. Soldiers and armies -- Soldiering in Tsarist Russia / John L.H. Keep -- The young officer in the old Army / Edward M. Coffman -- Perspectives in the history of military education and professionalism / Richard A. Preston -- Part IV : Strategy and tactics -- Napoleon and maneuver warfare / Steven T. Ross -- Problems of coalition warfare : the military alliance against Napoleon, 1813-1814 / Gordon A. Craig -- Strategy and policy in twentieth-century warfare / Michael Howard -- The historical development of contemporary strategy / Theodore Ropp -- The strategist's short catechism : six questions without answers / Philip A. Crowl -- Part V : Military thought and reform -- Innovation and reform in warfare / Peter Paret -- The war of ideas : the United States Navy, 1870-1890 / Elting E. Morison -- An enduring challenge : the problem of Air Force doctrine / I.B. Holley, Jr. -- Operation POINTBLANK : a tale of bombers and fighters / William R. Emerson -- The American Revolution today / John W. Shy -- Western perceptions and Asian realities / Akira Iriye -- Part VI : The military and society -- The military in the service of the state / John Winthrop Hackett -- The contribution of the frontier to the American military tradition / Robert M. Utley -- The end of militarism / Russell F. Weigley -- Military planning and national policy : German overtures to two World Wars / Harold C. Deutsch -- United against : American culture and society during World War II / John M. Blum -- Appendix : Harmon Memorial Lectures.

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