The first War Book Club meeting of the 2018-2019 season will take
place next Tuesday evening, September 4th, in the Board Room (yes, the
Board Room!) at the Central Library, 2nd floor, beginning at 7 pm.
Topic: The best war/military history book you read over the summer.
Hope to see you and get some good book recommendations.
Cheers, Warren
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Monday, August 13, 2018
Allies of a Kind: Canadian Army -- US Army relations and the Korean War, 1950-1953/Allan R Millett
The
monograph mentioned above provides an interesting look at U.S./Canadian
relations (or lack thereof) during the Korean War; several WBC members have
shared “Allies of a Kind” via email:
From the
Introduction by Colonel Thomas E. Hanson, Director, US Army Combat Studies
Institute:
American
Soldiers take for granted the close personal relations we have developed with
our Canadian comrades during more than a decade of side-by-side service in
Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other areas around the world. Canadians serve in
responsible positions inside a number of US formations, and the reverse is also
true. Therefore, it may surprise some in both armies to read Allan Millett’s
less-than-rosy narrative of our two nations’ first attempt at interoperability.
US Army Command and General Staff College Press is pleased to publish this
short study not because we seek to focus on past mistakes, but because it helps
to identify some of the issues to consider as the US Army focuses ever more
energy on its regional alignment of forces. Today no less than in 1950,
planners must understand and account for national differences when the goal is
interoperability. With little justification, US commanders in Korea at the
operational level often paid scant notice to the national strategies and
aspirations of the United Nations Command member states. At best, this led to
frosty relations and poor coordinaion; at worst, it resulted in a casual
disregard for casualties among non-US formations in pursuit of tactical goals
only tangentially related
to
strategic requirements.
According
to Wikipedia, Allan
R. Millett
is a historian and a retired colonel in U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. He is known
for his works on the Korean War, but he has written on other military topics.
Dr.
Millett served in the history department at Ohio State University for 37 years;
his books include:
- with Peter Maslowski and William B. Feis. For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States from 1607 to 2012. Free Press, 2012. ISBN 1451623534
- The War for Korea, 1950-1951: They Came from the North. University Press of Kansas, 2010. ISBN 0700617094
- The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning. University Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN 0700613935
- with Williamson Murray. A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Belknap Press, 2001. ISBN 0674006801
- with Williamson Murray. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0521637600
- Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps. Free Press, 1991. Rev. and expanded ed. ISBN 0029215951
- Military Effectiveness: First World War. Unwin Hyman, 1988. ISBN 0044450532
- A Short History of the Vietnam War. Indiana U. Press, 1985. ISBN 0253352150
- The General: Robert L. Bullard & Officership In The U.S. Army, 1881-1925. Greenwood Press, 1975. ISBN 0837179572
RPL/SILS
has the following titles by Dr, Millett:
D-Day/Jane
Penrose (ed.); article: “Blood upon the risers.”
Drive
North – U.S, Marines at the Punchbowl (eBook):
The War
for Korea, 1945-1950: a house burning:
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