General Frederick C. Weyand served as the 28th Chief of Staff of the Army in the 1970s but, as Dr. Frank Jones of the U.S. Army War College explains,...
Great Captains
These two commanders, Scipio Africanus vs. Hannibal … demonstrated [strategic leadership] to a great degree A BETTER PEACE continues the Great Captains series with the sequel to a previous...
Armed conflict is a deadly business. We in the military profession have a moral obligation to examine what works and what doesn’t work Traditional lists of prominent and successful...
As the ‘global’ commander, he oversees all of the Army including the Army Air Corps in all of the theaters in World War II In this episode in our...
As the Campaigns of 1862 move forward, Lee turns to Jackson more and more for counsel A BETTER PEACE continues its Great Captains series with a look at a...
His strategy was to strike directly at the heart of Rome … [he selected] terrain well and positioned himself in a way that almost secured victory Hannibal Barca (247-183...
He understands the psychology of war matters, and he is intent on trying to get the war over as quickly as possible. We continue our series on Great Captains...
Washington [will] realize early on that he is playing a losing hand and has to change how he plays that hand. This inaugural episode of the Great Captains series...
Greatness … should be judged by some combination of leaders’ political impact; strategic, operational, or tactical brilliance; and innovation and effects on subsequent military practice. What makes a military...