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Contributors Larry i. BLand, PhD, former editor and project director, The Papers of George Catlett Marshall (George C. Marshall Foundation, 1977–). Bland was the author of numerous articles on General Marshall and was the managing editor of the Journal of Military History, which is jointly supported by the Marshall Foundation and the Virginia Military Institute. CaroLine Cox, PhD, associate professor of history, University of the Pacific. Cox is the author of A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington’s Army (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). She was a West Point Summer Seminar Fellow in 2004 and a recipient of the Army Historical Foundation’s LTG Richard G. Trefry Distinguished Writing Award in 2005. tHoMaS L. “tiM” foSter, MBA, president of the consulting firm TAF Inc. From 1963 to 1994, Foster worked closely with Admiral Hyman Rickover (and subsequently for Rickover’s two successors, admirals McKee and DeMars) as business executive (budget, procurement, logistics, congressional liaison) for the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Foster has earned two Presidential Meritorious Rank awards and the Department of Energy Meritorious Service Award. CoLoneL Jon t. HoffMan, MA, JD, U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. Hoffman is the author of Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC (Random House, 2001) and Once a Legend: “Red Mike” Edson of the Marine Raiders (Presidio, 1994). He is the former deputy director of the Marine Corps History and Museums Division and is currently serving as chief of the Contemporary Studies Branch at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Hoffman is writing a biography of General Lewis W. Walt. kerry e. iriSH, PhD, professor of history, George Fox University. Irish is the author of “Apt Pupil: Dwight Eisenhower and the 1930 Industrial Mobilization Plan” (Journal of Military History, 2006) and Clarence C. Dill: The Life of a Western Politician (Washington State University Press, 2000). He is writing a biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. 270 Contributors Harry S. Laver, PhD, associate professor of military history, Southeastern Louisiana University. Laver is a former instructor of military history at West Point and the author of Citizens More Than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic (University of Nebraska Press, 2007) and “Preemption and the Evolution of America’s Strategic Defense” (Parameters : U.S. Army War College Quarterly, 2005). Laver is writing a book on the military leadership of generals George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. françoiS Le roy, PhD, assistant professor of military history and modern Europe, Northern Kentucky University. Le Roy is the author of “Mirages over the Andes: Peru, France, the United States, and Military Jet Procurement in the 1960s” (Pacific Historical Review, 2002), and he has recently presented papers on D-day and memory, French arms sales to Libya, and women in aviation. Le Roy serves as the historian for the Tri-State Warbird Museum and directs the Military History Program at Northern Kentucky University. Jeffrey J. MattHewS, Ma, PhD, MBA, associate professor and director of the Business Leadership Program, University of Puget Sound. He is the author of numerous history and leadership articles as well as the book Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era (SR Books, 2004). Matthews is writing a leadership biography of General Colin L. Powell. CoLoneL H. r. MCMaSter, PhD, U.S. Army. McMaster is currently serving as a senior research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and special assistant to the commander of the Multinational Force Iraq. He is the author of the award-winning book Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (HarperCollins, 1997). He was commissioned upon graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1984 and returned to West Point to serve as an assistant professor in the Department of History from 1994 to 1996. drew PerkinS, graduate student of history, Northern Kentucky University . Perkins served in the Eighty-second Airborne, U.S. Army. As a student, he has helped to collect and compile many videotaped interviews for the Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project, a constitutive part of the American Folklife Center. ...

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