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Fighting the Cold War : a soldier's memoir / General John R. Galvin, USA (Ret.).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galvin, John R., 1929-2015, author.
- Series:
- American warriors (Lexington, Ky.)
- American warriors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Galvin, John R., 1929-2015.
- Galvin, John R.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Officers--Biography.
- United States. Army.
- United States--History, Military--20th century.
- History, Military.
- Cold War--Biography.
- Cold War.
- Armed Forces--Officers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Military history.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 517 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813161013
- 0813161010
- OCLC:
- 893452335
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