Honorable warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the ethics of command
Material type: TextPublication details: Lawrence, Kan., USA: University Press of Kansas, 1998Description: 384pISBN:- 0700608869 (hbk.):
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A biography of Harold K Johnson, an American soldier who earned high posts in the US Army including as Chief of Staff in 1964. He was a Japanese POW in the Philippines during the Second World War in 1942 and survived 3 years. He also served as a field commander in the Korean War. These experiences earned him several high-level positions including his final appointment as Chief of Staff. He was well-known for his views in the ways that the US top officials was running the war in Vietnam in which he fundamentally disagreed with them.
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