Sublime

If you met Lewis in the street, you might guess that he was a lawyer or a kindly geography teacher. In fact, he was one of the most efficiently deadly men in the British services.

Krueger’s concern for his troops was legendary. Once, during a rainstorm on Leyte in 1945, Krueger found the sentry guarding his command post wet to the skin, cold, and shivering. He ordered the soldier inside and told him to towel off and change into one of Krueger’s dry uniforms. When a subordinate asked why, Krueger said, “Son, I’ve walked many

Four months later, in a speech to a luncheon given by the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), General Shinseki laid out his vision for the way forward. The Army would, he contended, explore and exploit the full range of emerging technologies, including command, control and communications technology, to find the best solutions to the

In February 1943, Admiral Kent Hewitt—fresh from amphibious invasions in North Africa and equipped with the sailor’s gift to see a red sky at morning and predict the storm to follow—sent a message to the US Army’s commander of ground forces requesting a curriculum addition to the Scout and Raider program to begin training men on the destruction of