Abdullah, King of Transjordan, 156, 162
Adams, Henry, 211
AfrikaKorps, 129
Aideed, Muhammad Farah, 243
Aiken, George D., 197
Aisne River, 78
Allen, Ethan, 42
Alon, Yigal, 163, 166, 168, 210
American Allied Expeditionary Force, 130
American Civil War, 151. See also Lincoln, Abraham
Anglo-American relations in, 30–31
Churchill on, 107–108
quality of military officers in, 34–37
telegraph in, 27–29
American Expeditionary Force (AEF), 55, 75, 81
American Telegraph Company, 28
Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry, 136
Anglo-American relations
in American Civil War, 30–31
in Second World War, 100, 114, 116
Anthropological determinism, 234
Antietam, battle of, 26, 42, 209
Anzio, landing at, 114
Appomattox Courthouse, 36, 210
Arab Legion, 156, 157, 159, 161
Arab Liberation Army, 157
Arab Revolt, 135
Aristotle, 220
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), 181–183
Aspin, Les, 201–202
Atlantic, battle of the, 104, 113–115
Atlantic convoys, 10
Austerlitz, battle of, 29
Australian Imperial Force, 245
Banks, Nathaniel, 35
Barak, Ehud, 215
Bastogne, 185
Battle of the Atlantic Committee, 113, 115
Beauregard, Pierre, 36
Beaverbrook, Lord (William Maxwell Aitken), 87–88, 200, 216–217
Beersheba, 155
Begin, Menachem, 166
Belgium, 61, 68, 69, 77, 83, 84
Belgrade, Chinese embassy in, 177
Ben-Gurion, David, 10, 133–174, 183, 218, 220, 229–230
age at command, 6
Altalena affair and, 165, 166, 223
atomic weapons and, 6
Churchill and, 6
in First World War, 140
“From the Haganah in the Underground to a Regular Army” by, 170–171
frugality of, 140
Haganah and, 135, 137, 142–154, 166, 167
Hebrew language and, 164
Israel Defense Forces and, 164, 166, 168, 170, 171
Israeli war of independence and, 154–163, 167–169, 172, 221, 222
Laskovand, 150
military technology and, 213
political background of, 140–141
reading by, 134
retirement of, 133–134
as state-builder, 163–164
statehood objectives of, 134–142, 221
Yadin and, 7, 160–161, 167–169, 208–209
Berlin, Isaiah, 211–212
Bevin, Ernest, 139
Biltmore program, 142
Bismarck, Otto von, 236
Black Hawk war, 19
Bletchley Park, 127
Bliss, Tasker Howard, 76
Blockade, in American Civil War, 25, 31
Boer war, 70
Bolo Pasha affair, 59
Bonar Law, 89
Bosnia, 201
Bracken, Brendan, 100
Bragg, Braxton, 19
Briand, Aristide, 59
Britain, battle of, 96, 114, 222
Brooke, Alan, 7, 98, 112, 118, 120, 121, 128, 129, 208–210
Browning, Orville, 30
Buchanan, James, 48
Buell, Don Carlos, 35
Buena Vista, battle of, 19
Bull Run, first battle of, 25–26, 28, 32
Bull Run, second battle of, 35
Bundy, McGeorge, 202
Bush, George H.W., 3, 189, 191, 194, 195, 197–199, 201, 214, 215
Butterfield, Daniel, 37
Caillaux, Joseph, 64
Cambodia, 182
Caporetto, battle of, 61
Center for the Professional Military Ethic, 247–248
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 36
Chamberlain, Neville, 100, 104
Champagne offensive, 60
Chancellorsville, battle of, 35, 36, 42
Charmley, John, 98
Chase, Salmon P., 21
Chattanooga, battle of, 26, 34, 41
Chemin des Dames, 78
Cheney, Richard Bruce, 190, 192–193, 214
Cheyl mishmar (CHIM), 153
Chickamauga, battle of, 19, 34
China, 176, 177, 190, 242, 244
Churchill, Winston, 5, 95–132, 153, 173–174, 183, 212, 229
age at command, 6
on American Civil War, 107–108
art of interrogation of, 118–131, 214
atomic weapons and, 5–6
biography of Marlborough by, 107, 109, 174
Brooke and, 7, 98, 120, 128, 129, 208–210
Clemenceau and, 6
coalition warfare and, 68, 115–118
in colonial campaigns, 106–107
on courage, 224
First World War and, 52–54, 107, 110–112
French fleet, destruction of, 223
front line visits of, 52–53, 127
health of, 102
historical critique of, 97–99, 100–103, 112–113
History of the English-speaking Peoples by, 107
intelligence operations and, 123, 127
Middle East commanders and, 128–129
military technology and, 213
naval judgment of, 121–123
as painter, 108
on Palestine, 138
peace aims of, 131
political rhetoric of, 132, 218, 219
as popular icon, 101–102
regimental patches issue and, 124–127
The River War by, 106–107
Roosevelt and, 100, 110, 114, 116
Royal Air Force and, 104
Royal Navy and, 122–123
staff of, 103–105
war strategy and, 108–118, 132, 221, 222
The World Crisis by, 107, 109, 130
Civil War.See American Civil War
Clark, Wesley, 202–203
Clausewitz, Claus von, 7–8, 22, 50, 129, 131, 172, 187, 207, 221, 236, 238, 239, 241, 247
Clemenceau, Georges, 5, 52–94, 153, 173–174, 183, 212, 218
age at command, 6
Alsace and Lorraine and, 56, 59, 66
Churchill and, 6
coalition warfare and, 71, 75–76, 79–81
on courage, 224
death of, 93
Dreyfus affair and, 57
Foch and, 55, 56, 58, 66, 68, 77–81, 84–93, 201, 208–210, 220, 221
front line visits of, 52–54, 64–65, 76, 78–79, 214
Grandeur and Misery of Victory by, 91
military advisers to, 63–64, 76
military technology and, 213
peace and armistice negotiations and, 55, 56, 82–84, 87–90, 92–93
personal discipline and organization of, 63, 64
Pétain and, 55, 56, 66, 76–79, 89, 91, 220
political background of, 54, 57, 59
politics of, 57–58
style of command of, 56, 61–62, 64–66, 221, 222
suppression of domestic opposition to war, 64, 66, 223
Clifford, Clark, 179
Clinton, Bill, 199, 202–204, 215, 239
Coalition warfare, 72–73
Clemenceau and, 71, 75–76, 79–81
Cohen, William, 203
Cold Harbor, battle of, 24, 37
Collective settlements (kibbutzim), 133, 141
Colville, John, 210
Commune, 57
Communications revolutions, 6, 23
Communism, 115, 117, 139, 176, 177, 248
Constitution of the United States, 225
Cooper, Scott, 13
Council on Foreign Relations, 204
Cox, Jacob, 36
Crossbow Committee, 115
Cuban missile crisis, 176
Cunningham, Sir Alan, 121, 128
Curragh mutiny, 233
Dahlgren, John A., 25
Dana, Charles, 22, 42–45, 217, 224
Danang, 181
Danchev, Alex, 101
Davis, Jefferson, 18–19
Dayan, Moshe, 168
D-Day, 115
De Gaulle, Charles, 11–12, 94, 117
Deir Yasin massacre, 165
Dill, Sir John, 101, 121, 128, 129, 209
Directive Number 4, 74
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (movie), 13
Doullens conference of 1918, 68, 77
Dreyfus, Alfred, 57
Duchêne, General, 78
Dugan, Michael, 191
Dunkelman, Ben, 167
Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste, 57–58
Early, Jubal, 42, 43, 46–48, 50, 222
École Supérieure de la Guerre, 58, 70
Edward VIII, King of England, 102
Egypt, 106, 155–159, 163, 166, 240
Eicke, Theodor, 244
Eilat, Israel, 168
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1, 116, 131, 182
ElArish, 168
Elton, G.R., 98
“Empire's Post-War Fleet, The,” 121–122
Esterhazy, Ferdinand, 57
Etzion settlement, 159
Ewell, Julian J., 184
Face of Battle, The (Keegan), 238
First World War, 52–93, 110–111, 244–245. See also Clemenceau, Georges
Ben-Gurion in, 140
Churchill and, 52–54, 107, 110–112
coalition warfare, 68, 71–73, 75–76, 79–81
MICHAEL offensive, 246
peace and armistice negotiations, 55, 56, 82–90, 92–93
weaponry in, 75
Foch, Ferdinand, 54–56, 58, 66–74, 77–86, 201, 208–210, 220, 221
Fort Pickens, 17
Fortress Monroe, 42
Fort Sanders, 24
Fort Sumter, resupply of, 17, 18, 41
Franks, Frederick, 191
Frémont, John C., 30
“From the Haganah in the Underground to a Regular Army” (Ben-Gurion), 170–171
Frost, David, 194
Galilee, 160
Galili, Israel, 146, 149, 150, 166
Gandhi, Mahatma, 134
George Catlett Marshall medal, 3
Gettysburg, battle of, 26, 34–36, 40, 108, 209, 223
Gladstone, William, 215
Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, 189, 190, 229
Goltz, Rüdiger von der, 67
Grandeur and Misery of Victory (Clemenceau), 91
Grant, Ulysses S., 15–18, 21, 33, 35–38, 41–48, 50, 57, 208–211, 217–218
Great Society, 242
Greece, 112, 115, 117, 120, 128, 131
Greeley, Horace, 43
Greenbaum, Yitzchak, 167
Grenada, 240
Grigg, P.J., 125–127
Guam conference of 1967, 181
Gulf war, 1, 3, 186, 188–200, 214, 229, 240, 244
Habeas corpus, suppression of, 223
Haganah, 135, 137, 142–154, 164–167
Haig, Sir Douglas, 55, 56, 72, 77, 82, 233
Haiti, 240
Halifax, Lord, 105
Halleck, Henry, 28, 39, 41, 46–48, 50, 63, 214
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 34
Harel brigade, 166
Hebrew language, 164
Heintzelman, Samuel, 34–35
Hernson, William, 22
Hindenburg Line, 74
Histadrut, 140
History of the English-speaking Peoples (Churchill), 107
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 42
Hitler, Adolf, 64, 93, 105, 113, 117, 123
Hobart, Percy, 101
Holbrooke, Richard, 201
Holocaust, 138
Hooker, Joseph, 19–21, 35, 37, 38, 42
Horner, Charles, 191
Howard, Michael, 102
Hunt, Ira A., 184
Huntington, Samuel P., 4, 226–234, 237, 239–244, 248
al-Hussaini, Abd el-Kadr, 159, 160
al-Husseini, Haj Amin, 138
Hussein, Saddam, 191, 195–199, 221
Independence Day (movie), 4
India, 138
International Churchill Society, 101–102
Iraq, 61, 156, 157, 162, 163, 189–198
Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL), 137, 141, 147, 154, 164–166
Ismay, Hastings, 99, 105, 111, 118, 127, 128, 214
Isonzo, twelfth battle of, 61
Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 146, 150, 151, 153, 155, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164–172
Israeli war of independence, 154–163, 167–169, 172
Italian campaign, 110, 112, 114, 128
J'accuse (Zola), 57
Jackson, Stonewall, 20, 25, 35, 230
Jaffa, 154
James, William, 239
Janowitz, Morris, 231, 232, 239
Jena, battle of, 29
Jerusalem, 154–166, 169, 221, 222
Jewish Quarter, 161
Joffre, Joseph-Jacques-Césaire, 65
Johnson, Lyndon B., 175–182, 184, 185, 215, 242
Johnston, Joseph, 25, 45, 48–49
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 176, 178–180, 184–185, 188–190, 198, 200, 203, 229
Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), 123
Jones, R.V., 95–97
Jordan, 139, 159, 161–163, 170, 172
“Journals of a Witness” (Mordacq), 63
Jutland, battle of, 122
Kastel, 160
Katyn Forest massacre, 131
el-Kawukji, Fawzi, 157
Kennedy, John R, 132
Key, John J., 39–40
Key, Thomas M., 39
Khobar Towers bombing, 202
Killer Angels (Shaara), 36
Kimball, Warren, 100
Kimche brothers, 158
King, Jere Clemens, 59
King David Hotel, Jerusalem, 137
Kitchener, Lord, 106, 107, 111
Komer, Robert, 182
Kubrick, Stanley, 13
Kurds, 197
Kuwait, 190, 191, 194, 195, 198
Laos, 182
Laskov, Haim, 150
Leahy, William, 214
Lechi (Lohamei Herut Yisrael), 137, 147, 154, 164–165
Lee, Robert E., 19, 20, 26, 33–35, 40, 45, 50, 209, 210, 222
Libya, 128
Liddell Hart, Basil, 169
Lincoln, Abraham, 5, 15–51, 56, 63, 97, 134, 135, 153, 173–174, 183, 212, 215, 229, 237, 242
assassination of, 44
cabinet of, 20–21
Clemenceau's respect for, 6, 56
Dana and, 42–45
education of, 21
emancipation and, 38
Grant and, 15–18, 38, 42–47, 208–211, 217–218
habeas corpus, suppression of, 223
intellect of, 21–22
McClellan and, 21, 39, 40, 216
oversight of military operations by, 17–18, 21–22, 29, 38–47, 214, 221–222
qualifications as commander in chief, 18–23
Second Inaugural Address of, 218
Sherman and, 18
Stanton and, 48–49
strategic concept of, 30–33, 38, 50–51
telegraph and, 27–28
Lincoln and His Generals (T. Harry Williams), 16
Lincoln Finds a General (Kenneth P. Williams), 16
Lindemann, Frederick (Lord Cherwell), 100, 104, 110–111, 122
Link, Arthur, 92
Livy, 3
Ljubljana gap, 102
Lloyd George, David, 52, 55, 86, 90, 233
Logistical revolution, 23
Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Lechi), 137, 147, 154, 164–165
Lorraine, 56, 59, 66, 77, 83, 84
Lucius Aemilius, 2–3
Luftwaffe, 120
MacArthur, Douglas, 187, 215, 216, 233, 241
Makleff, Mordechai, 167
Manassas, first battle of, 25–26, 28, 32
Mandel, Georges, 63–64
Mapai (Mifleget poalei yisrael), 141, 143, 145
Marcus, Mickey, 161
Marlborough, Duke of, 107, 174
McClellan, George, 21, 28, 35, 37, 39–42, 209, 215, 216
McDonald, D.L., 178
McDowell, Irwin, 21
McMaster, H.R., 178
McNamara, Robert Strange, 175, 177–179, 181–184, 202
Meade, George, 21, 26, 40–41, 45, 209–210
Meigs, Montgomery C., 18
Menzies, Robert, 98
MICHAEL offensive, 246
Miles, Nelson, 36
Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), 182, 183
Millerand, Alexandre, 59
Mishmar HaEmek, 155
Mishmar Hayarden, 159
Moltke, Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von, 217
Moltke, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von, 67, 70, 217, 236
Monash, Sir John, 245
Montenegro, 83
Monterey, battle of, 19
Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law, 127
Moran, Lord, 102
Mordacq, Jean-Jules-Henri, 63–64, 76–78, 81, 84, 88, 89, 214
Mott, T. Bentley, 69
Moyne, Lord, 137
Napoleon Bonaparte, 7, 20, 23, 56, 67, 68, 70, 90, 221, 224
Napoleon III, 56
National Guard, 185–186
Negba, 155
Negev desert, 133, 155, 161, 168
Netherlands East Indies, 114
Normal theory of civil-military relations, 4–8, 13, 30, 31, 66, 173–175, 187, 199, 205, 209, 226, 230, 242, 248
Normandy invasion, 112, 116, 129–130
North Africa, 66, 110, 115, 116, 129, 200, 242
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 201, 206
Objective control, theory of, 4, 227–229, 231, 248
Omdurman, battle of, 106
On War (Clausewitz), 7–8
Operation ALLIED FORCE, 202
Operation DRAGOON, 116
Operation HUSKY, 116
Operation INSTANT THUNDER, 190
Operation JUPITER, 114
Operation NACHISON, 160
Operation ROLLING THUNDER, 190–191
Operation VICTOR, 118–121
Oran, Algeria, 118
Ottoman Turks, 61
Pagenis, Gus, 244
Paget, General, 126
Painlevé, Paul, 59
Palestine, 61, 133, 135, 136–142, 148–149. See also Ben-Gurion, David
Palmach, 10, 144, 147–149, 151, 157, 164–169, 210, 244
Panama, 240
Paris, France, 55, 62, 74, 78, 222
Passchendaele, battle of, 56
Pearl Harbor, 109
Pedroncini, Guy, 55
“Pentagon Papers,” 182
People's Liberation Army (China), 244
Peres, Shimon, 171
Perry, William, 202
Pershing, John J., 55, 69, 72, 75, 76, 80–82, 84
Persian Gulf war, 1, 3, 186, 188–200, 214, 229, 240, 244
Pétain, Philippe, 55, 66, 69–71, 73–79, 82, 85, 88, 89, 91, 220
Petersburg, siege of, 43, 50, 222
Plato, 225
Poincaré, Raymond, 55, 60, 70, 76, 82, 84, 87, 89, 90
Pope, John, 21
Powell, Colin, 188–197, 206, 215
Quayle, Dan, 101
Rabin, Yitzhak, 163, 165, 166, 168, 170, 215
Railroads
in American Civil War, 25–27, 29
in Second World War, 130
Ralston, William, 203
Rawlinson, Henry, 52–53
Recouly, Raymond, 91
Red River expedition, 35
Republican Guard (Iraq), 195, 197
Republic (Plato), 225
Reynolds, David, 99
Reynolds, John, 34
Rhine River, 56, 84, 86, 87, 89, 92–93, 127
Ribot, Alexandre, 59
Rice, Donald, 191
Richmond, Virginia, 31, 36, 42, 221
Ricks, Tom, 240
Ripley, James W, 25
Ritter, Gerhard, 236–238
River War, The (Churchill), 106–107
Robertson, Sir William, 72, 233
ROK (Republic of Korea) army, 181
Romania, 83
Roman Republic, 2–3
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 100, 105, 110, 113–116, 131, 194, 200, 223, 242
Rosecrans, William, 34, 35, 43, 44
Rosen, Stephen, 107
Roskill, S.W., 121
Royal Air Force, 10, 95, 96, 104, 114, 120, 130, 169
Royal Navy, 122–123
Rumsfeld, Donald, 205
Russo-Japanese war, 70
Salonika, 61
Sarrail, Albert, 68
Schlesinger, James, 186
Schlieffen, Alfred von, 217
Schwarzkopf, Norman, 3, 190, 192–194, 196–197
Schweinfurt debacles, 246
Scott, Percy, 103
Scott, Winfield, 17–18, 27, 33, 37, 41
Second World War, 10, 242–245. See also Churchill, Winston
Anglo-American relations in, 100, 114, 116
railroads in, 130
Schweinfurt debacles, 246
Sedan, 81
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 206
Serbia, 83, 202, 203, 206, 207, 240
Seven Days in May (movie), 232
7th Brigade, 167
Seward, William, 20–21, 31, 48
Shaara, Michael, 36
Sharon, Ariel, 11
Sharpsburg, battle of, 39
Shaw, George Bernard, 107
Sherman, John, 48
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 18, 26–27, 33, 35, 37, 38, 45, 48, 50
Shi'ites, 197
Shultz, George, 188
Sickles, Daniel, 36
Sinai peninsula, 155, 158, 162, 168, 169, 172
Singapore, 115
Smith, Gordon H., 206
Smith, Leighton, 201
Sneh, Moshe, 146
Soldier and the State, The (Huntington), 4, 226–229
Soviet Union, 114–118, 129, 131, 140, 190
Spanish Civil War, 244
Stanton, Edwin W, 20–21, 26, 28, 42–49, 210, 217
Strategic nihilism, doctrine of, 234–240
Stuart, E.B., 20
Subjective control, concept of, 227, 231
Switzerland, 117
Sword and the Scepter: The Problem of Militarism in Germany (Ritter), 236
Taylor, Maxwell, 180
Tedder, Arthur, 130
al-Tel, Abdullah, 156
Telegraph, in American Civil War, 27–29
Temple Mount, 161
Thatcher, Margaret, 101
Thomas, Lorenzo, 42
Tiberias, 154
TIGER convoy, 121
Tirpitz (battleship), 123
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 229
Totenkopf (Death's Head) division, 244
Tower, John, 192
Train, Harry, 14
Trent affair, 31
Triangle Institute for Security Studies, 200
Turing, Alan, 127
Turner, George Edgar, 26
Turner, Levi C, 39
24th Mechanized Infantry Division, 186
Twenty-Second Zionist Congress (1946), 138, 172
Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), 136
US Army Signal Corps, 28
US Military Telegraph, 28
United Workers' Party (Mapam), 141, 167
Verdun, battle of, 55, 60, 70, 74
Vicksburg campaign, 43
Vienna, 102
“Vietnam syndrome,” 199
Vietnam war, 3, 14, 55, 175–191, 197–200, 212, 215, 240, 243, 247
Vivian, René, 59
Waffen-SS divisions, 244
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 234–235
Warden, John, 190–191
War of the Spanish Succession, 107
Washington, George, 135
Washington, raid on, 42, 43, 46, 48, 50, 222
Washington conference of 1942, 116
Weaponry
in American Civil War, 23–25, 29, 36
in First World War, 75
in Israeli war of independence, 151–152
weapons of mass destruction, 75, 124, 196
Weigley, Russell, 236–238
Weinberger, Caspar, 101, 186–188, 204
Weizmann, Chaim, 141
Welch, Larry, 192
Welles, Gideon, 48
Western Wall, 159
Westmoreland, William, 181–183, 215
Weygand, Maxime, 91–92
Wheeler, Earle, 180
White Paper of 1939, 135, 136, 152
Wilderness, battle of the, 43
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 217
Williams, Kenneth P., 16
Williams, T. Harry, 16
Willkie, Wendell, 100
Wilson, James, 35
Wilson, Woodrow, 80, 82–84, 86, 88, 90, 92
WINDOW, 10
Wingate, Orde, 101
Woerner, Fred, 192
Wolfe, James, 213
Woodward, Bob, 190
World Crisis, The (Churchill), 107, 109, 130
World War I. See First World War
World War II. See Second World War
Yadin, Yigal, 7, 149, 160–161, 167–169, 208–209, 214
Yalu River, 176
Zemach, 159
Zionist program, 135, 136, 138–142
Zola, Émile, 57