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.
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