The Association of the United States Army Lemnitzer Lecture Series features authors speaking about their books involving the Army and national security.
In its march toward modernization, the Army needs to understand who it’s going to fight, what systems it has and where the fight will take place before it rushes to invent something new.
Raddatz, an Emmy Award-winning correspondent with ABC News, encouraged the audience to “make people listen” to their stories of war
Today’s military and the nature of warfare would be unrecognizable to history’s greatest American commanders.
by Martha Raddatz
But the U.S. should strike at “legitimate military targets” and avoid innocent civilian populations and noncombatants to the fullest extent possible.
The post-World War II law of war that once neatly governed the ground rules of combat is becoming irrelevant as the character of war and the people we fight continue to change.
A decorated Army Ranger who served in Korea and Vietnam says the U.S. must guard against going into a future conflict unprepared. It has happened before with unfortunate results, he said.
By LTC J.P. Clark, U.S. Army
The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time. J. P. Clark traces the evolution of the Army between the War of 1812 and World War I, showing how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional soldiers left their mark upon the Army and its ways.
The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.
On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred Chinese attackers. Their commander, Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, was wounded three times before he was evacuated.
