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  BELOW: Division PAO photos from Jim Chorazy of Web Staff. Spearhead infantrymen of Co C, 1st Bn, 48th Inf are oblivious to the camera in two scenes of urban combat training in April, 1983, in a deserted German village. The soldiers unfortunately were not named. The cube-like attachment on the muzzles of the M-16's allowed the weapon to operate in automatic mode when using blank rounds. Enlarge Photos

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"Eagles Don't Die"
by Ronald L. Chisté
Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.)
3rd Armored Division Cold War Veteran

A novel published in 2007 based on a true incident
that occurred at a 3rd Armored nuclear weapons
training facility in Hanau, Germany, in 1971.

Available on Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble
and Borders Books (store or website)


From Jim Chorazy, Web Staff:

 BOOK COMING IN 2008:
"The Cold War U.S. Army"
Building Deterrence for Limited War

 

By Ingo Trauschweizer
Release date: June 2008 (see Amazon.com & others)
416 pages, 29 photographs, 2 maps, 6 x 9
Cloth, ISBN 978-0-7006-1578-0, $39.95
Press Release below by University Press of Kansas:

The Cold War marked a new era for America's military, one dominated by nuclear weapons and air power that seemed to diminish the need for conventional forces. Ingo Trauschweizer chronicles the U.S. Army's struggles with its identity, structure, and mission in the face of those challenges, showing how it evolved, redefined its mission more than once, and ultimately transformed itself. (CONTINUED below)

Trauschweizer describes how, beginning in the 1950s, the army faced an unprecedented problem: how to maintain a combat-ready fighting force that could operate on both conventional and nuclear battlefields. Faced with shifting threats to national security, budgetary battles, and unstable political developments around the globe, the army also had to keep abreast of new weaponry while navigating changes in its own top brass and the presidency.

Trauschweizer particularly considers the army's organizational and doctrinal response to problems posed by deterrence in Europe, focusing on the evolving role of the Seventh Army in West Germany - the largest and best-prepared field army the U.S. had ever deployed in peacetime. He explores the roles of Generals Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and others, as well as the use role of tactical nuclear weapons, as he traces the army's transformation through the New Look policy, pentomic reorganization, and the adoption of the ROAD concept.

Ultimately, Trauschweizer contends, the army found it impossible to prepare for limited war in the Third World while pursuing its primary mission of deterrence in Europe. His revisionist argument about the army's objectives in the 1960s and early 1970s places the Vietnam War in the context of the wider Cold War, offering new lines of inquiry into both. He also shows how, after the debacle of Vietnam, the army's sense of mission, technological evolution, organizational structure, and operational doctrine matured to produce the AirLand Battle doctrine of 1982, the cornerstone of our defense of Europe until the Cold War finally ended.

"An exceptional, in-depth analysis of the role played by the U.S. Army in American strategy during and immediately after the Cold War. . . . Indispensable for anyone attempting to understand that period or the Army's thinking in its current efforts to develop Future Combat Systems." - Dale R. Herspring, author of Rumsfeld's Wars: The Arrogance of Power.

"Few authors illuminate the details and interactions of strategy, organization, doctrine, and technology as well as Trauschweizer has done here."- Dave Hogan, author of Centuries of Service: The U.S. Army, 1775 - 2004.

"Fills a significant gap in the military history of the twentieth century and deserves the attention of soldiers, historians, and the general public."- Jonathan M. House, author of Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century.

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