Glory and Terror: The Growing Nuclear Danger by Steven Weinberg

Author:Steven Weinberg [Weinberg, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781590171301
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Published: 2022-08-07T23:28:01+00:00

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days. As it happened, nobody in the Army of Tennessee would see Wheeler’s troops again until mid-October.

And in February 1 864 the Union cavalry general Judson Kilpatrick talked Lincoln into allowing his cavalry to make a disastrous raid into Richmond in order to distribute pamphlets and free some prisoners. As Bruce Catton observed, “It was born of a romantic dream and it was aimed at glory, and glory was out of date.”

We have recently had another example of the military distaste for unheroic roles. Just as the Royal Navy preferred “hunting” to convoy duty in World War I, and the Allied air forces preferred strategic bombing to ground support in World War II, and the cavalry preferred independent action to the support of infantry in the Civil War, so in recent years the United States Army has preferred to plan for fighting battles without worrying about how to govern conquered territory. The Army in World War II had an effective Division of Military Government. It was established in the Office of the Provost Marshall in July 41

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1942 , long before there were any captured Axis territories to govern. It was this division and the personnel whom it trained at the Charlottesville School of Military Government that made it possible for the United States later to govern Japan and parts of Germany and Italy in an orderly way. without encountering widespread looting, rioting, or guerrilla attacks.

In the years after the war, responsibility for military government was relocated in the Civil Affairs branch of the Army. Support for this branch was allowed to dwindle, and Civil Affairs survived several attempts to disband it as a separate unit, until in 1 987 it finally found a home in the Special Operations Command. There it had to fight off attempts to divert its remaining funds and personnel slots to Special Forces. At the end of the 1980s, an Armycommissioned report, in a chapter called “Pruning Non

Essentials,” asked the questions “Should 7 ,000 reservists continue to be trained to govern occupied nations? Is there a need for those trained in the administration of art, 42

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