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In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. 43 years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. Coffman tells how that critical transformation was accomplished.

Soldiers --- History --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- Military life. --- United States. Army --- Military life --- 20th century

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Motion picture --- Cinéma --- Army --- Armée

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In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For the next two turbulent years, Halleck was Lincoln's chief war advisor, the man the President deferred to in all military matters. Yet, despite the fact that he was commanding general far longer than his successor, Ulysses S. Grant, he is remembered only as a failed man, ignored by posterity. In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, the prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. When Lincoln summoned him to the nation's capital, Halleck boasted outstanding qualifications as a military theorist, a legal scholar, a brave soldier, and a California entrepreneur. Yet in the thick of battle, he couldn't make essential decisions. Unable to produce victory for the Union forces, he saw his power become subsumed by Grant's emergent leadership, a loss that paved the way for Halleck's path to obscurity. Harnessing previously unused research, as well as the insights of modern medicine and psychology, Marszalek unearths the seeds of Halleck's fatal wartime indecisiveness in personality traits and health problems. In this brilliant dissection of a rich and disappointed life, we gain new understanding of how the key decisions of the Civil War were taken, as well as insight into the making of effective military leadership.

Generals --- Halleck, H. W. --- Halleck, Henry Wager, --- Halleck, J., --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- United States --- History --- Campaigns.

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National security --- Military research --- Civil defense --- Combat survivability (Military engineering) --- Survivability (Military engineering) --- Military engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Homeland defense --- Homeland security --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army