training because a fouled piece may mean a lost battle, an overlooked
sick man may infect a fortress and a mislaid message can cost a war.
In virtue of his position, every junior leader is an inspector, and
the obligation to make certain that his force at all times is
inspection proof is unremitting.
XXVIII
In battle crisis, a majority of Americans present will respond to any
man who has the will and the brains to give them a clear, intelligent
order. They will follow the lowest-ranking man present if he obviously
knows what he is doing and is morally the master of the situation, but
they will not obey a chuckle-head if he has nothing in his favor but
his rank.
XXIX
In any action in which the several services are joined, any American
officer may expect the same measure of respect from the ranks of any
other service as from his own, provided he conducts himself with a
dignity and manner becoming an American officer.
For all officers, due reflection on these points, relating to the
character of our men in war, is not more important than a continuing
study of how they may be applied to all aspects of training, toward
the end that we may further strengthen our own system. This is the
grand object in all military studies. That service is most perfect
which best holds itself, at all times and at all levels, in a state of
readiness to move against and destroy any declared enemy of the United
States.
APPENDIX ONE
RECOMMENDED READING
Army Historical Division--Okinawa: The Last Battle, 1949.
Omaha Beachhead, 1946.
H. H. Arnold--Global Mission, 1949.
Basil Bartlett--My First War, 1941.
William Liscum Borden--There Will Be No Time, 1946.
David L. Brainard--The Outpost of the Lost, 1929.
Bernard Brodie--A Guide to Navy Strategy, 1944.
The Absolute Weapon, 1946.
Vannevar Bush--Modern Arms and Free Men, 1949.
Winston S. Churchill--The World Crisis, 1931.
The Unknown War, 1931.
The River War, 1933.
Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1933-35.
A Roving Commission, 1939.
The Second World War, 1948--.
Hugh M. Cole--The Lorraine Campaign, 1950.
W. F. Craven and J. L. Cate--The Army Air Forces in World War II,
1948--.
Edward S. Creasy--Decisive Battles of the World, 1862.
James P. S. Devereux--The Story of Wake Island, 1947.
Giulio Douhet--Command of the Air, 1927.
Clifford Dowdey--Experiment in Rebellion, 1946.
Theodore Draper--The Six Weeks' War, 1944.
Dwight D. Eisenhower--Crusade in Europe, 1948.
Report by the Supreme Commander, 1946.
George Fielding Eliot--The Ramparts We Watch, 1938.
If Russia Strikes, 1949.
Charles W. Elliott--Winfield Scott, 1937.
Cyril Falls--The Nature of Modern Warfare, 1941.
Ferdinand Foch--The Principles of Warfare, 1913.
J. F. C. Fuller--Decisive Battles, 1940.
The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant, 1929.
Armament and History, 1946.
The Second World War, 1948.
Armored Warfare, 1943.
Douglas F. Freeman--R. E. Lee, 1934.
William A. Ganoe--History of the United States Army, 1942.
James M. Gavin--Airborne Warfare, 1947.
Joseph I. Greene--The Living Thoughts of Clausewitz, 1943.
Russell Grenfell--The Bismarck Episode, 1949.
U. S. Grant--Personal Memoirs, 1885.
Augustin Guillaume--Soviet Arms and Soviet Power, 1949.
Francis de Guingand--Operation Victory, 1947.
W. F. Halsey--Admiral Halsey's Story, 1947.
Gordon A. Harrison--The Cross-Channel Attack, 1950.
B. H. Liddell Hart--Sherman, 1934.
The Future of Infantry, 1934.
The German Generals Talk, 1949.
G. F. R. Henderson--Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War,
1898.
The Science of War, 1905.
Pendleton Herring--The Impact of War, 1941.
R. D. Heinl, Jr.--The Defense of Wake, 1947.
Marines at Midway, 1948.
John Hersey--Into the Valley, 1943.
Russell Hill--Desert War, 1942.
Max von Hoffmann--The War of Lost Opportunities, 1925.
Ralph Ingersoll--The Battle Is the Pay-Off, 1943.
Douglas Wilson Johnson--Topography and Strategy in the War, 1917.
Melvin M. Johnson and Charles T. Haven--Automatic Arms, 1941.
Walter Karig, Russell L. Harris and Frank A. Manson--Battle Report,
1944-1949.
George C. Kenney--General Kenney Reports, 1949.
Roger Keyes--Naval Memoirs, 1933.
Alexiei Kuropatkin--The Russian Army and the Japanese War, 1909.
Lee J. Levert--Fundamentals of Naval Warfare, 1947.
Bert Levy--Guerilla Warfare, 1942.
Charles B. MacDonald--Company Commander, 1947.
A. T. Mahan--Influence of Seapower Upon History.
George McMillan--The Old Breed, 1949.
George C. Marshall--General Marshall's Report, 1946.
S. L. A. Marshall--Island Victory, 1944.
Bastogne: The First Eight Days, 1946.
Men Against Fire, 1948.
Giffard Martel--An Outspoken Soldier, 1944.
Walter Millis--The Last Phase, 1946.
This Is Pearl, 1947.
John Miller, Jr.--Guadalcanal: The First Offensive, 1949.
Drew Middleton--Our Share of Night, 1946.
Samuel Taylor Moore--America and the World War, 1937.
Samuel Eliot Morison--History of United States Naval Operations in
World War II (14 vols.), 1947--.
W. F. P. Napier--History of the War in the Peninsula (6 vols.) 1828.
James R. Newman--The Tools of War, 1942.
Frederick Palmer--America in France, 1921.
John J. Pershing, 1921.
George S. Patton, Jr.--War As I Knew It, 1947.
Thomas R. Phillips--Roots of Strategy, 1940.
Frederick Pile--Ack-Ack, 1949.
Fletcher Pratt--Ordeal by Fire, 1935.
Road to Empire, 1939.
The Marine's War, 1948.
Navy: A History.
Leonard Rapport and Arthur Northwood--Rendezvous With Destiny, 1948.
Roland Ruppenthal--Utah Beach to Cherbourg, 1947.
W. T. Sherman--Memoirs, 1886.
Robert E. Sherwood--Roosevelt and Hopkins, 1948.
Milton Shulman--Defeat in the West, 1948.
Holland M. Smith--Coral and Brass, 1949.
E. L. Spears--Liaison 1914, 1930.
Prelude to Victory, 1939.
Joseph W. Stilwell--The Stilwell Papers, 1948.
Alfred Vagts--The History of Militarism, 1937.
Yorck von Wartenburg--Napoleon as a General.
Archibald Wavell--Allenby, 1941.
Generals and Generalship, 1941.
John W. Wheeler Bennett--The Forgotten Peace, 1939.
Munich: Prologue to Tragedy, 1948.
Kenneth P. Williams--Lincoln Finds a General, 1949.