Restoring America's Military Prowess by Peters John E.;

Author:Peters, John E.; [Peters, John E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. According to the 2013 Army War College Student Handbook (37–38), http://dde.carlisle.army.mil/DDE_documents/StudentHandbook_2013.pdf.

2. This is my own determination. It was not until 1914 that armies had communications, mobility, and firepower reflecting today’s capabilities in these domains.

3. This description treats the substance of the plan. Christopher Clark has pointed out that, written in 1905, the plan may have been an argument for more conscription since it employed more forces than Germany had at that time. See Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 216.

4. Ian Senior, Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne (New York: Osprey, undated e-book edition), chapter 1.

5. Richard Overy, Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet War Effort, 1941–1945 (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), 99–124.

6. Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms 1939–1945 (New York: Basic Books, 2015), 542.

7. U.S. Army Center for Military History, http://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/army_flag/ww2_ap.html.

8. United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Japan’s Struggle to End the War, 1 July 1946, https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/pdfs/68.pdf.

9. Paul Kecskemeti, Strategic Surrender: The Politics of Victory and Defeat (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1957), chapter 6.

10. Department of State, Office of the Historian, https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconstruction.

11. U.S. Army, Chronology of the Occupation 15 August 1945–31 March 1946, http://www.history.army.mil/documents/8-5/8-5.htm.

12. Charles B. Macdonald, World War I: The U.S. Army Overseas, Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army, chapter 18, http://www.history.army.mil/books/AMH/AMH-18.htm.

13. Ibid., 383.

14. H. W. Brands, Woodrow Wilson (New York: Times Books, Henry Holt, 2003), 89.

15. Macdonald, World War I, 385.

16. Brands, Woodrow Wilson, 95.

17. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, translated and edited by Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton, NJ: Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1989).

18. Macdonald, World War I, 400.

19. Paul von Hindenburg and Frederic Appleby Holt, Out of My Life, Volume II (1921) (Kessinger Publishing’s Rare Reprints), 270–74.

20. See, for example, Vo Nguyen Giap, Peoples’ War, Peoples’ Army (New York: Praeger, 1962).

21. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/79119/Brezhnev-Doctrine.

22. Congressional Research Service, Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798–2014, Report Number R42738, September 15, 2014.

23. Stuart L. Koehl and Stephen Glick, “Why the Rescue Failed: There Was More to Operation Eagle Claw’s Failure in the Desert of Iran than Jimmy Told Us,” American Spectator, July 1980, http://spectator.org/articles/34807/why-rescue-failed.

24. H. G. Schroeter, Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe Since the 1800s (New York: Springer, 2005), chapter 2.

25. NATO, “The Future Tasks of the Alliance” (Harmel Report), December 13, 1967, http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_26700.htm.

26. John A. Reed Jr., Germany and NATO (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1987), xxi.

27. Theoretically Britain and France were exceptions, with forces outside the alliance defensive structure. After 1966, France’s military had no role in the “layer cake” defenses of the central front. As a practical matter, planners at the time doubted a Soviet offensive would allow the time for NATO to deploy additional forces.

28. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, New Technology for NATO: Implementing Follow-on Forces Attack, June 1987, UNT Digital Library, http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39886/.

29. John E. Peters, “Evaluating FOFA as a Deterrent,” RUSI Journal (December 1987): 39–46.

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