Fighting the Cold War: a soldier's memoir

Part I. Pleasant Street

The flashing eyes

Shadows on the ceiling

The Pleasant Street army

If God was mad

My nine lives

Part II. Army life

West Point: a time for testing

Fort Benning: just like artillery, only bigger

Puerto Rico: schooling

Lanceros: continuen

101st Airborne Division: Hato Rey

Fort Knox and Ginny

Part III. War

First Vietnam

Pentagon: the papers

Second Vietnam: all roads lead to Rang Rang

Part IV. Mixed command and staff assignments

The Fletcher School

Stuttgart: the big staffs

Belgium: Supreme Commanders Goodpaster and Haig

3rd Infantry Division

8th Infantry Division

24th Infantry Division

VII Corps: warrior preparation

Part V. Southern Command

Southern Command, Panama

Honduras

El Salvador

Colombia

Part VI. Supreme commander

Buttressing

The White House and nuclear arms reduction

Conventional forces in Europe

WINTEX, the war game

Change: the right mix

The wall

A strategy for change

The First Gulf War

Red Square

The rescue of the Kurds

The new force structure

The coup

Part VII. Global perspective

Back to West Point, by way of Bosnia

Ohio State University and global strategy seminars

Back to Fletcher: leading and teaching leadership.