Eugenia C. Kiesling
United States Military Academy
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The Journal of Military History | 2002
Eugenia C. Kiesling; Lorry M. Fenner; Marie E. deYoung
Series Editors PrefaceRita J. Simon Part One Moving Targets: Womens Roles in the U.S. Military in the 21st CenturyLorry M. FennerSelected Bibliography Part Two A Feminist Analysis in Support of the U.S. Army Ground Combat Exclusion for WomenMarie E. deYoungReferences Part Three ReflectionsResponse to deYoungLorry M. FennerResponse to FennerMarie E. deYoung Index
Defence Studies | 2003
Eugenia C. Kiesling
(2003). The fall of France: Lessons of the 1940 campaign. Defence Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 109-123.
The Journal of Military History | 2008
Eugenia C. Kiesling
1943, eleven days before the end of the campaign. Of this disturbing occurrence Wheeler concludes, “The short answer is that Allen and Roosevelt were exhausted....” (p. 257). But, like Gerald Astor in Terrible Terry Allen and Rick Atkinson in An Army at Dawn, Wheeler notes that General Omar Bradley was determined to relieve both in North Africa long before the bitter fight at Troina, Sicily. After the debacle at the Tine River in Tunisia, Bradley, at II Corps, believed the unorthodox Allen to be “fiercely antagonistic” and “not fit to command” (pp. 212-213). Fortunately, both able generals returned to combat commands in 1944. Allen was succeeded as CG by Clarence Huebner, who took the Division ashore at Normandy and through the struggle for Aachen. When he went to V Corps as deputy commander, Clift Andrus succeeded, and led the Big Red One through the Ardennes and Central Europe campaigns to victory. Both were from the division and both were highly regarded. With postwar demobilization, the 1st Division remained in Europe supporting the mobile Constabulary, and then patrolled the Communist “Iron Curtain” with other NATO forces during the Korean War. “Gyroscoping” back state-side in 1955 to Fort Riley, Kansas, the 1st underwent the Pentomic restructuring into five battle groups, and then the 1964 conversion to ROAD (Reorganization Objectives Army Division). With the troop build-up in South Vietnam in 1965, the Big Red One was the first Army division to begin deploying, basing north of Saigon in III Corps tactical zone. Improvising new tactics and techniques of fire support bases, helicopter assault, and search and destroy missions, the 1st Division successfully carried out operations like Cedar Falls and Junction City in that difficult conflict. Returning the colors to Fort Riley in 1970, the Division, like the rest of the armed forces, had to weather the drugand race-related turbulence of that decade. It was a reformed military that deployed overseas again by 1991 and mounted Operation Desert Storm that liberated Kuwait and defeated the Iraqi forces of Saddam Hussein, and the troops of the Big Red One flew home to a welcome celebration. The history of the 1st Infantry Division depicts the course of American military developments, but also the valor of the American infantryman, so well portrayed in this excellent book. Wheeler’s work reflects extensive research, including in unit records and collections at the Center of Military History, the Military History Institute, and the McCormick Research Center. There is an interesting variety of photos, and of maps, some coming from the US Army official histories, while others are battle maps, and one an annotated Tunisian road map. To cover the long career of the 1st Division, and yet provide detail and depth while being concise, is simply an admirable accomplishment. Appendices, with unit orders of battle and commanders over the years, as well as perhaps Medal of Honor recipients, would be nice future additions. For there is more history that will be written by the Big Red One.
Armed Forces & Society | 2005
Eugenia C. Kiesling
with a ‘brain drain’—as some of our best scientists drift away to the West and elsewhere—we shall never be able to ‘catch up.’ And if for some reason the West restarts any work on biological weapons, we are no longer in a position to meet that challenge with a program of our own.” Perhaps the reason to read this book is not for enlightenment on its subtitle but rather for reassurance from its subplots. For what Domaradskij tells the reader in those spaces between the lines is that in the scientific curiosity, the moral courage, the loyalty, the pettiness, the hubris, the bureaucratic backbiting, and the professional jealousies, our adversaries are just like us—human beings.
Defence Studies | 2005
Eugenia C. Kiesling
The Journal of Military History | 2001
Eugenia C. Kiesling; Francois Gere
The Journal of Military History | 2007
Eugenia C. Kiesling
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies | 2010
Eugenia C. Kiesling
The Historian | 2009
Eugenia C. Kiesling
The Journal of Military History | 2004
Eugenia C. Kiesling