Apr 20, 2020
7 min read
Coronavirus Through the Lens of ‘America’s First Battles: 1776–1965’
What the American way of war has to teach us
In the summer of 1939, America’s military was understaffed, under-trained, and didn’t understand the new realities of the mechanized battlefield.
Serious thinkers knew war was coming. Ferdinand Foch, Supreme Allied Commander in World War I…
