Every Man a Tiger (1999) by Clancy Tom - Nf - Commanders

Author:Clancy, Tom - Nf - Commanders [Commanders, Clancy, Tom - Nf -]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-03-17T20:24:26+00:00

The Army briefing didn't fare so happily. For reasons unknown to Chuck Horner, it was never made clear that General Schwarzkopf had intended all along to offer Joe Purvis's plan as a straw man that would justify the extra corps the CINC wanted very badly. To the best of Horner's knowledge, Schwarzkopf had told Colin Powell time and again, "This plan is not what I want, but I can't do what needs to be done without another corps at the minimum." So Joe Purvis, courageously, stood up and got pummeled (and by implication, Norman Schwarzkopf got pummeled with him). The Army plan was called unimaginative, timid, risky. There were jokes about it: "Hey, diddle diddle, right up the middle." All the while, Joe Purvis stood up time and again and absorbed the hits that led people to come to the hard conclusion that more ground forces would be needed if offensive operations were to be initiated. Though he never got much credit for it, he turned out to be a key factor in the success of Desert Storm.

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