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Frederick Maurice – soldier, military writer. Maurice of Nassau. Gordon McCormick – theorist on the "Magic Diamond" model of counter-insurgency. Steven Metz. Billy Mitchell. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder – theorist and strategist; "father" of mission-type tactics and the German field manual for unit commanders.
Joseph L. Galloway. Joseph Lee Galloway (November 13, 1941 – August 18, 2021) was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy ...
Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and ...
198th Infantry Brigade. Battles/wars. Vietnam War. Awards. Purple Heart. Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, [1] and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans. [2] O'Brien is perhaps best known for his ...
Belfast, Northern Ireland. Occupation (s) Reporter, Journalist. Known for. Being the first officer to undergo gender reassignment while in the British Army. Abigail "Abi" Austen, (born Ian Hamilton; 8 December 1964) [1] is a Northern Irish-born Scottish journalist and former British Army officer. [2] She is the first officer in the British Army ...
Early life. Blunt was born James Hillier Blount on 22 February 1974 at Tidworth Camp military hospital, then in Hampshire.His mother, Jane Ann Farran (née Amos), started a ski chalet company in the French Alpine resort of Méribel, while his father, Charles Blount, was a cavalry officer in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and then a helicopter pilot, becoming a Colonel in the Army Air Corps.
Battles/wars. Korean War. Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his novel MASH (1968), based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon doctor during the Korean War (1950–1953) and ...
johncmcmanus .com. John Coyne McManus (born 1965) is a military historian, author, and professor of military history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri. McManus has published thirteen books on numerous American military history topics, including: the Allied invasion of Normandy, American infantry soldiers ...