CONTENTS
PROLOGUE: Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944
1. General George C. Marshall: The leader
2. Dwight Eisenhower: How the Marshall system worked
3. George Patton: The specialist
4. Mark Clark: The man in the middle
5. “Terrible Terry” Allen: Conflict between Marshall and his protégés
6. Eisenhower manages Montgomery
7. Douglas MacArthur: The general as presidential aspirant
8. William Simpson: The Marshall system and the new model American general
9. William Dean and Douglas MacArthur: Two generals self-destruct
10. Army generals fail at Chosin
11. O. P. Smith succeeds at Chosin
12. Ridgway turns the war around
14. The organization man’s Army
15. Maxwell Taylor: Architect of defeat
16. William Westmoreland: The organization man in command
17. William DePuy: World War II–style generalship in Vietnam
18. The collapse of generalship in the 1960s
19. Tet ’68: The end of Westmoreland and the turning point of the war
20. My Lai: General Koster’s cover-up and General Peers’s investigation
21. The end of a war, the end of an Army
IRAQ AND THE HIDDEN COSTS OF REBUILDING
24. Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and the empty triumph of the 1991 war
25. The ground war: Schwarzkopf vs. Frederick Franks
26. The post–Gulf War military
27. Tommy R. Franks: Two-time loser
28. Ricardo Sanchez: Over his head
29. George Casey: Trying but treading water
30. David Petraeus: An outlier moves in, then leaves