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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.
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Washington, D.C. :: Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force,
Year:
1988.
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xxi, 608 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Monograph
ISBN:
0912799587 9780912799582 9780912799483 091279948X;
Abstract:
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
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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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