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SU]`ai^WVY_W`fe I am pleased to acknowledge the many friends and colleagues who offered advice, assistance, and encouragement during my work on this project. My academic mentors Ted Wilson and Roger Spiller reinvigorated languishing intellectual energy and provided the inspiration to make this book possible. My thanks to the reviewers, Brian McAllister Linn, Roger Spiller, and Jonathan M. House, for their comments and suggestions that improved the manuscript. I am indebted to the series editors and staff at the University Press of Kansas and Michael Briggs, Jennifer A. Dropkin, Susan K. Schott, and Amy Sherman, in particular. Thanks also to Erin Girard for transcribing oral histories and to those who agreed to be interviewed . Joseph G. D. “Geoff” Babb, A. J. Bacevich, Larry T. Balsamo, Charles H. Baumann, Robert F. Baumann, Robert Berlin, Jerry Brown, Edwin Burgess, Michael Burke, Richard E. Cavazos, Carmen J. Cavezza, Alexander “Sandy” Cochran, William C. Combs, Tony Cucolo, Robert Epstein , David M. Fishback, John T. Fishel, Christopher Gable, George W. Gawrych, Greg Heritage, Michael Jallo, Virginia Jelatis, Virginia Leonard, Alan Lowe, Jim McDonough, Allan Millet, Larry Moores, Jerry D. Morelock , Tony R. “Randy” Mullis, Tim Nenninger, William G. Pierce, Jeffrey C. Prater, William Glenn Robertson, Douglas P. Scalard, Peter J. Schifferle, James Schneider, Dwayne Wagner, David S. Weisman, James Willbanks, Larry T. Yates, and the exceptionally professional librarians and staff at the Combined Arms Research Library (CARL), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas , made many contributions that may not be readily apparent to them, but I am indebted nonetheless. I greatly appreciate the candor and professionalism of Scott W. Palmer, a true friend and colleague who proofread the manuscript and offered perceptions that significantly strengthened this work. I appreciate the expedient efforts of Heather Moore of the U.S. Senate Historical Office, Jim Parker at Double Delta, and the staff members of Art Resource, the Granger Collection, the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, and the National Archives in providing documents and images. To the conference attendees at the various Society of Military History panels over the years, many thanks for the feedback on the papers I presented regarding this topic. I thank Western Illinois University for a travel stipend that helped to fund my research. To my colleagues and students in the Department of x : ACKNOWLEDGMENTS History, your kind words of encouragement over the years were much appreciated. Thanks go out to my colleagues and the many graduate and undergraduate students at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, as well as those at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. At the more personal level, my wife, Pamela J. Kontowicz, helped in more ways than I can count. She was always there for me and sustained me during many difficult days. I would be lost without her. I am also indebted to my parents, Walter V. Kretchik and Martha L. (Selvaggi) Kretchik, for their encouragement and the many personal sacrifices they made on my behalf. ...

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