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History has been kinder to the American generals of World War II-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley-than to the generals of the wars that implemented. Is this merely nostalgia? Here, Thomas E. Ricks right answers the question definitively: No, it isn't, in no small part because of a widening gulf between performance and accountability. During World War II, scores of American generals were relieved of command word simply for not being sufficient. In The Generals we meet great market leaders and believe ones, generals who increased to the occasion and those who failed themselves and their soldiers. Marshall and Eisenhower cast long shadows over this story, but no single number is more motivating than Marine Basic O. P. Smith, whose struggling with retreat from the Chinese language onslaught into Korea in 1950 snatched a kind of victory from the jaws of annihilation. But Smith's courage and genius in the face of one of the grimmest cases the marines have ever before faced only cast the shortcomings of the people who put him there in sharper alleviation. If Korea confirmed the first indicators of a culture that neither punished mediocrity nor specifically rewarded daring, the Vietnam War saw American armed forces leadership bottom level out. Within the wake of Vietnam, a challenge for the spirit of the united states Military was waged with impressive success. It became a altered organization, reinvigorated from underneath up. But if the body was highly well developed, its mind still suffered with familiar problems, resulting in tactically savvy but strategically obtuse management that would earn battles but end wars terribly. Ricks has made an in depth research of America's armed forces market leaders for three generations, and in his hands this story resounds with greater interpretation: the transmission of values, proper thinking, the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails. Military record of the best quality, The Generals is also essential reading for anybody with an intention in the difference between good market leaders and bad ones.
