The Generals: American Military Command from WWII to Today

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Monday, March 3, 2014  |  12:15 pm  |  SRH 3.122

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We meet great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.

Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post’s special military correspondent and a member of two Pulitzer Prize–winning teams for national reporting. In addition, he is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine. He is the author of The Gamble, Fiasco, Making the CorpsA Soldier’s Duty, and his most recent book, The Generals. Ricks lives in Washington, D.C.