Gen. Gorman’s papers: Interesting, and a model for how to present documents
The papers of retired Gen. Paul Gorman have been placed online. Recently I spent close to half a day looking through them. Gorman is an interesting figure, in the middle of things in Korea, in Vietnam and in the post-Vietnam rebuilding of the Army. I’d never before seen his speech proposing a kind of National ...
The papers of retired Gen. Paul Gorman have been placed online. Recently I spent close to half a day looking through them. Gorman is an interesting figure, in the middle of things in Korea, in Vietnam and in the post-Vietnam rebuilding of the Army. I'd never before seen his speech proposing a kind of National Training Center.
The papers of retired Gen. Paul Gorman have been placed online. Recently I spent close to half a day looking through them. Gorman is an interesting figure, in the middle of things in Korea, in Vietnam and in the post-Vietnam rebuilding of the Army. I’d never before seen his speech proposing a kind of National Training Center.
I found the papers intrinsically interesting, and his oral history, covering his time in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, as well as his role in the post-Vietnam rebuilding of the Army, is one of the best I’ve read. I’d recommend it especially to anyone interesting in learning about how to train soldiers.
But I also think this sort of presentation is a model for presenting the papers of significant figures. It was like a visit to the Army’s Military History Institute — without having to drive to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and eat lunch down the road at Sheetz’s gas station.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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