Thomas X. Hammes
Auteur de The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
A propos de l'auteur
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a career Marine, Thomas X. Hammes has spent most of his twenty-nine years on active duty serving in infantry and intelligence assignments. One of the first authors to define fourth generation warfare, Colonel Hammes has written numerous articles for defense afficher plus journals and lectured at war and staff colleges. His writing has also appeared on the opinion page of The Washington Post. Hammes lives with his family in Northern, Virginia afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo by Cpl. J. Agg (marines.mil)
Œuvres de Thomas X. Hammes
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Hammes, Thomas X.
- Nom légal
- Hammes, Thomas Xavier
- Date de naissance
- 1953-08-31
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- American Falls, Idaho, USA
- Études
- Oxford University (Lincoln College) (DPhil|Modern History)
US Naval Academy (BS|1975)
Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Canadian National Defense College - Professions
- marine
- Organisations
- United States Marine Corps
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 368
- Popularité
- #65,433
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 9
So if the conventional wisdom leaves something to be desired, how does Hammes explain the performance of the Pusan Marines? To a large degree he attributes this to good doctrine and culture. While some realistic training did take place in the brigade and while there were combat-experienced leaders at the level of brigade HQ, Hammes suspects that the single biggest reason for the unit's success was that the Marine Crops worked very hard at healing the rift between its ground and aviation elements post-1945; good aerial support was certainly a game changer in the battle to come. There was also an effort to really improve small-unit tactics at the same time, in the shadow of having to face the Soviet military. Finally, there was a real sense of getting back to basics in relation to the concept that every Marine is a rifleman before they are anything else, thus allowing for replacements gathered on the fly to be assimilated quickly and overcoming the usual lack of time needed to create a cohesive unit. The rest, as they say, is history.… (plus d'informations)