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Fighting the Cold War a soldier's memoir
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Title
Fighting the Cold War [electronic resource] : a soldier's memoir / General John R. Galvin, USA (Ret.).
ISBN
0813161037
9780813161037
9780813161013 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 History.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 09, 2015
Series
American warriors
Contents
Part I. Pleasant Street
The flashing eyes
Shadows on the ceiling
The Pleasant Street army
If God was mad
My nine lives
Part II. Army life
West Point: a time for testing
Fort Benning: just like artillery, only bigger
Puerto Rico: schooling
Lanceros: continuen
101st Airborne Division: Hato Rey
Fort Knox and Ginny
Part III. War
First Vietnam
Pentagon: the papers
Second Vietnam: all roads lead to Rang Rang
Part IV. Mixed command and staff assignments
The Fletcher School
Stuttgart: the big staffs
Belgium: Supreme Commanders Goodpaster and Haig
3rd Infantry Division
8th Infantry Division
24th Infantry Division
VII Corps: warrior preparation
Part V. Southern Command
Southern Command, Panama
Honduras
El Salvador
Colombia
Part VI. Supreme commander
Buttressing
The White House and nuclear arms reduction
Conventional forces in Europe
WINTEX, the war game
Change: the right mix
The wall
A strategy for change
The First Gulf War
Red Square
The rescue of the Kurds
The new force structure
The coup
Part VII. Global perspective
Back to West Point, by way of Bosnia
Ohio State University and global strategy seminars
Back to Fletcher: leading and teaching leadership.
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