America and the Future of War by Murray Williamson

Author:Murray, Williamson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: United States, military, military policy, warfare, national security, future planning
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2016-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

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1. One of the students could not only identify several locations in the photographs in Aylmer Haldane’s memoirs, but also the nature of the tribes that the British general describes.

2. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, p. 48.

3. Bernard Fall’s account of the fall of Dien Bien Phu remains the most gripping account of that battle. See Bernard Fall, Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu (New York, 1966).

4. For an account of that effort, see David Halberstam, The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era (New York, 2007).

5. President John F. Kennedy used the phrase in his inaugural speech in Washington, D.C., in January 1961.

6. See Frank Snepp, Decent Interval, for a clear discussion of the irresponsible actions of America’s diplomats and intelligence bureaucrats.

7. An effort that was led significantly by two of the smartest and well-read officers this author has ever met: James Mattis and David Petraeus.

8. The same thing had occurred in Los Angeles in 1992. When the police commissioner pulled the police out of the downtown areas, massive looting immediately broke out.

9. Quoted in Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor, The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, From George W. Bush to Barack Obama (New York, 2012).

10. Based on this author’s recollection having heard the skit on three different occasions.

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