General William E. Depuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War

By Henry G. Gole

Book Overview

From the late 1960s to the late 1970s, the United States Army was a demoralized institution in a country in the midst of a social revolution. The war in Vietnam had gone badly and public attitudes about it shifted from indifference, to acceptance, to protest. Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams directed a major reorganization of the Army and appointed William E. DePuy (1919-1992) commander of the newly established Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), in 1973. DePuy already had a dist

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813125006
• ISBN13: 9780813125008
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher