Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• I. THE WAR DEPARTMENT FROM ROOT TO MARSHALL
• Creation of the New General Staff, 1900-1903
• The Early Years of the General Staff, 1904-1917
• World War I: The Bureau Period, 1917-1918
• World War I: The March Period, 1918-1919
• The Long Armistice, 1919-1939
• II THE MARHSALL REORGANISATION
• The Chief of Staff and Secretary
• The General Staff Breaks Down, 1939-1941
• The Reorganisation of March 1942
• General Marshall's Command Post
• Army Ground Forces
• Army Air Forces
• Army Service Forces
• The ASF Control Division
• The Technical Services
• The Administration Services
• The Service Commands
• III. CHANGES IN THE MARHSALL ORGANISATION
• The War Department General Staff
• G-1
• G-2
• G-3
• G-4
• The War Department Special Staff
• The Civil Affairs Division
• Personnel and Manpower Problems
• Research and Development of New Material
• IV. THE EISENHOWER REORGANISATION
• Genearal Marshall's Views on Postwar Military Organisation
• The Special Planning Division and the Marshall Program
• General Somervell and a Single Service of Supply
• The Patch-Simpson Board
• The Eisenhower Reorganisation of 1946
• V. BETWEEN PEACE AND WAR
• Unification
• Army Ground Forces and Unity of Command
• Planning for a Logistics Command
• The Controller of the Army
• The Johnston Plan and War Department Circular 342 of 1 November 1948
• The Cresap, McCormick and Paget Survey
• SR 10-5-1 and SR 10-500-1, 11 April 1950
• The Army Organisation Act of 1950
• The Command of the Army
• VI. THE POST-KOREAN ARMY
• The Palmer Reorganisation of the Army Staff, 1954-1956
• The Feud Over Research and Development
• Combat Developments
• The Continental Army Command
• VII. THE DEFENSE ENVIRONMENT OF THE 1950's
• The Introduction of Functional Budgets
• The Area of Common Supplies and Services
• The Increasing Authority of the Secretary of Defence and the JCS
• VIII. THE McNAMARA REVOLUTION
• Mission or Program Budgets
• Centralised Defense Functions
• IX. PROJECT 80: THE HOELSCHER COMMITTEE REPORT
• X. PROJECT 80: THE END OF A TRADITION
• The Traub Committee Report
• The Approval and Execution of Project 80
• XI. CONCLUSION