Getting It Right: American Military Reforms After Vietnam and into the 21st Century,9780595184460

Getting It Right: American Military Reforms After Vietnam and into the 21st Century

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780595184460
ISBN10: 0595184464
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
Publisher(s): Iuniverse Inc
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Author Biography

James F Dunnigan is the author of numerous articles and books on military affairs and simulations. Colonel Raymond Macedonia, US Army, Retired, was the first Chairman of the Army War College's Department of War Gaming

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Never Quite Got It Right
1(24)
Lessons Learned, and Forgotten
25(14)
The Army Gets Nuked
39(16)
The Central Front Fixation
55(10)
Vietnam: False Confidence
65(36)
The Hollow Army
101(24)
Reform
125(22)
Reeducation
147(18)
The Volunteers
165(18)
New Ideas
183(17)
Innovative Training
200(27)
The Fat 80s
227(19)
Proof of Performance
246(10)
The Other Services
256(31)
The Perils of Peacetime
287(81)
An Uncertain Future
368(33)
Appendices 401(70)
About the Author 471

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