Now, in the second decade of the 21 st century, our nation is again confronted with a volatile and complex security environment, and addressing the challenges of our time will place new demands on military leaders at all levels.
Marshall, who later explained that Secretary Marshall had “inspired the undertaking due to his personal conviction that American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally.” Written at the dawn of the nuclear age and the emergence of the Cold War, it addressed an officer corps tasked with developing a strategy of nuclear deterrence, facing unprecedented deployments, and adapting to the creation of the Department of Defense and other new organizations necessary to manage the threats of a new g lobal order.
That original version of this book was written by none other than S.L.A. Marshall, then serving as the Secretary of Defense, signed a cover page for a new book titled The Armed Forces Officer.
In 1950, the great Soldier-Statesman George C.
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