Sublime

It was as if the “world was standing on its head,” wrote a Filipina who watched this. “The Americans, rulers and idols for as long as we could remember, were turned overnight into unshaven, shambling wretches.” Yet in mainlanders’ eyes, the whites who had faced Japan were heroes, MacArthur most of all. While the generals in charge of Hawai‘i on Dec

With the notable exception of Patton, Matthew Ridgway, and J. Lawton Collins, most American generals led from the rear.

Contents List of Illustrations Maps Abbreviations and Acronyms Prologue 1 Day Trip to Dieppe, 1942 2 The Godfather 3 Technology and War 4 The Philosophy of the Pinch 5 Doing Deals 6 The Commandos Get Cracking 7 Mapping the Future 8 Mayhem in the Maghreb 9 Testing the Waters 10 Invasion of the Islands 11 Freeing the French 12 Breakthrough 13 Operati

John Warner and Carl Levin provide a timeless example of such an investigation in their “Review of the Circumstances Surrounding the Ranger Raid on October 3–4, 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia” (Warner and Levin 1995).