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WASHINGTON — The most consequential sentence in the modern history of American civil-military relations was uttered not in a public hearing, not in a dramatic congressional speech, but behind closed doors in the Oval Office, delivered in a voice as cold as a winter grave. George Catlett Marshall looked across the room at a beleaguered … Read more

LONDON, January 15, 1943 – In the candlelit confines of a villa conference room, Winston Churchill met his intellectual match at midnight, and the course of the Second World War was irrevocably altered by a stack of paper and a Rear Admiral who refused to be out-talked. The Prime Minister’s legendary late-night stamina, fueled by … Read more

WASHINGTON — The rain had stopped by the time George C. Marshall closed the last classified file, but the chill in the Oval Office was absolute. The man who had rebuilt Europe and orchestrated the defeat of Nazi Germany looked at the President of the United States and delivered a verdict that cut through two … Read more

WASHINGTON — The rain had stopped by the time George C. Marshall closed the last classified file, but the chill in the Oval Office was absolute. The man who had rebuilt Europe and orchestrated the defeat of Nazi Germany looked at the President of the United States and delivered a verdict that cut through two … Read more

Die Akte Patton: Was Deutschlands Generäle nach dem Krieg einhellig über den amerikanischen Feldherrn aussagten – und warum dieses Urteil bis heute nachhallt Es ist eines der bemerkenswertesten Phänomene der Militärgeschichte: Eine Gruppe von Männern, die sich in fast allen strategischen Fragen uneinig waren, fällte über einen einzigen Gegner ein Urteil, das in seiner Geschlossenheit … Read more