BRAIM : The will to win (fülszöveg)
Called the nation's greatest combat general by President Harry S. Truman, James Van Fleet led American and allied forces to battlefield victory during a career that spanned World War I and the Cold War. In this biography, Paul Braim, a military historian who commanded a rifle company under Van Fleet in Korea, relates this legendary leader's unique story and draws parallels to the U.S. Army's history of diverse challenges met in the twentieth century.
Defining the root of Van Fleet's success as devotion to his men and dedication to rigorous field training and mental conditioning, the author describes Van Fleet's ability to inspire his men with his "will to win" philosophy through two world wars and in the limited wars that followed. He highlights Van Fleet's command of the III Corps in its drive through the heart of Nazi Germany in World War II and his training of allied soldiers in the Cold War, including his development of the Greek National Army into a fighting force that defeated a strong communist insurgency. As commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, Van Fleet applied his winning leadership so successfully within the constraints of that limited war that the South Korean Army was able to assume a major fighting role. Van Fleet was one of a few senior military leaders to recommend expanded training of the South Vietnamese as an alternative to committing U.S. combat forces in Vietnam. His "will to win" philosophy remains valid for U.S. military confrontations today. This tribute to an outstanding American—a poor boy from rural Florida who rose to the rank of four-star general in the Army—is a book for military leaders and historians and those who enjoy reading biographies of great military leaders.
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