December 17, 2020 “I Am Interested in the Soldier Having His Pants” While a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, George Marshall studied military history and tactics, and was doubtless familiar with…
December 8, 2020 George C. Marshall (author of the Marshall Plan)’s Left Ear I'm interested in the way Americans learn to be Americans, acutely aware as I age that we are born into…
December 7, 2020 Friends and Pranksters: Marshall and Brigadier General Adams It is difficult to imagine Marshall as inhabiting anything but the no-nonsense, resolute persona of his professional life. This image is so pervasive that we are commonly…
November 18, 2020 Not Retirement At All Gen. George Marshall served as Army Chief of Staff from September 1939 to November 1945, longer than the ordinary four-year…
November 12, 2020 Infantry School: “An almost complete revamping of the instruction and technique” Lt. Col. George Marshall had just taken a position teaching at Army War College in Washington, D.C., when his wife,…
November 5, 2020 “He was an inspiration to us all in those trying days” The relationship between General George C. Marshall and Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill has been considered one of…
October 20, 2020 No more let us falter! From Malta to Yalta! "No more let us falter! From Malta to Yalta!" telegraphed Prime Minister Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt on New Year's…
October 8, 2020 Discovered: A George Marshall Mural Study Last February, I got a phone call from Mr. Arnold Jaffe, who told me that he found two studies of…
September 18, 2020 Lasting Indebtedness: George C. Marshall, William Dean, and the POWs of the Korean War Issues surrounding prisoners of war (POWs) played a critical role in Korean War history. Disagreements between the US-led United Nations…