... as a “thinker and doer” as he was capable of both dealing with complex military concepts as well as leading soldiers. DePuy participated in the formulation of military strategy as he joined the Office of the Chief of Staff, Army's (OCSA) Coordination Group. DePuy was one of those who participated in strategic...

...Since Bill DePuy was totally engaged in the Vietnam War, he assumed the following positions in theater operations, tactics, and national strategy respectively: J-3, Military Assistance Command, Vietnamese (MACV) from 1964 to 1966; the 1st Infantry Division's commander from 1966 to 1967; and Special...

... vessels in and out of harbors, surveying coastal waters, and other navigational missions. When the Blockade Strategy Board met in the summer of 1861, it recommended that a Coast Survey vessel be assigned to each of the principal blockading squadrons to complete surveys of portions of the coast not already...

...Sue and Henry pushed for the black leadership to take over election strategy. A policy was established for candidates to declare their willingness to run rather than waiting to be recruited. Weeks of indecision ended when a school teacher, Robert R. “Bob” Smith, with no prior Holmes Movement...

... Bernard B air interdiction Dien Bien Phu Viet Minh and the battle of Giap Gen Vo Nguyen Viet Minh logistics at Dien Bien Phu Mechanization Strategy Operational decisions Impact of logistical considerations The First Indochina War ended on May 15, 1955, when the last French ship left Haiphong...

... Soviet Union U S Navy Cold War Navy Hemisphere Plan Second World War The Churchill World War II ABC 1 Report grand strategy World War I military strategy operational art Arcadia Conference 1941–42 Army National Guard of the United States Arnold Henry H “Hap ” King Ernest J Marshall George...

... submarines U S Navy anti access and area denial strategy A Type Ross Robert Chinese Communist Party Heritage Foundation hukou system Index of Economic Freedom spiral model Bader Jeffrey Buckley Chris Document No Hong Kong Xi Jinping Minzner Carl Shambaugh David Haddick Robert Mearsheimer...

...In the last quarter of 2003, the situation in Iraq worsened as combat deaths and sectarian violence increased significantly, prompting several proponents of the war to reconsider their position in the face of impending defeat. Although President Bush has not specified an exit strategy, he did agree...

...In The Sailor, David F. Schmitz presents a comprehensive reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policymaking. Most historians have cast FDR as a leader who resisted an established international strategy and who was forced to react quickly after the attack on Pearl...

... the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provide a new understanding of its place within the Second World War. Individual chapters offer original perspectives on a range of neglected or previously-overlooked subjects: how Allied grand strategy shaped the war at sea...

...This chapter focuses on the major strategic issues relating to the war and the way those issues were debated in both the North and the South. Questions of strategy, operations, generalship, relations between civilian and military leaders, and internal political or societal constraints on military...

...This chapter addresses the first full-fledged, formal staff talks between U.S. and British military staffs. The narrative outlines the detailed negotiations that resulted in an agreed coalition grand strategy of “Germany first,” a strategic defensive in the Pacific, and the subordinate strategic...

...This chapter discusses attempts to form a new containment strategy. Containment was considered as the standard for foreign policy at the time. Anticommunism had provided an intellectual structure to foreign policy during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, anticommunism left an imposing...

...This chapter discusses in detail Bill Clinton's “enlargement” strategy. It looks at how this strategy slowly unraveled a year after it reached its high point in September 1993. It also discusses the possible causes of the failure of enlargement and the practical shortcomings of the strategy...

...This chapter discusses the war on terror, which unfolded during the early 2000s. This showed that the strategy of the Bush administration was not nearly well integrated as it had originally appeared. At the same time, the war on terror quickly evolved into a political lever, and antiterrorism...

... the “selfish” pursuit of power that characterizes other countries. In dealing with its more powerful neighbors, scholars say China chooses to adopt a “calculative” strategy learned from the Warring States period to keep a relatively low and nonprovocative profile as a means to buy time until it is strong...

...This chapter examines the U.S.'s struggle to develop an innovative cavalry doctrine and a mechanized force. During the 1920s, the course of developing mechanization had been deflected by the president's national military strategy, budget restrictions, the Depression, and the mind-set...

...Pardew and Leotard agree on an aggressive diplomatic strategy to promote peace. The Macedonians allow Pardew and Leotard to talk only to recognized Albanian political leaders. NATO is left to exclusively engage the NLA. The international envoys look for leverage to influence the negotiating parties...

... Defense Secretary Robert S bureaucratic friction Nixon Richard patron client relationship s Vietnam War War Termination Strategy The war termination problems that the United States encountered during the major post-9/11 interventions may not be an aberration. The Vietnam conflict suffered from...