[iowamark]

Live presentation Tuesday at 6pm Central time at the link.

Amazon: 'Margin of Victory: Five Battles That Changed the Face of Modern War' by Douglas Macgregor

The five battles:
Mission impossible: The Battle of Mons, 1914 --
War without end: The Battle of Shanghai, 1937 --
Reversal of fortune: The destruction of Army Group Center, 1944 --
Enemy at the gate: counterattack across the Suez, 1973 --
Lost victory: Desert Storm and the Battle of 73 Easting, 1991 --
Conclusion: America's margin of victory in the twenty-first century.

[iowamark]

[colorado tanker]

Macgregor’s offensive concept assumed the rapid restoration of control to the Iraqi Army and no occupation

Would have been interesting to see how that scenario would have played out.

[jmacusa]

Verdun and The Somme. 30,000 British casualties, 15,00 KIA in a single day, July 1,1916.

[DocRock]

Battle of Britain - Radar
Midway - Aircraft Carriers

Major battles that changed modern warfare

[Uncle Sam 911]

President Trump, pick up the house phone, your next nominee for Secretary of the Army is here.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I would have included Tet. A battle we won in Vietnam but the war we lost in Washington. New York. LA.
Kent State. etc.

It was there that the new formula for a mass media strategy of war on the front pages was started by the socialists.

[Hugin]

Clearly written by a Army guy. How can you leave out the Battle of Britain and Coral Sea/Midway?

[vooch]

wrong list

here is the correct list

First Battle of the Somme 1916
Tank Battles at Khalkin Gol 1939
Crossing of Meuse by 7.Panzer 1940
Malayan Campaign 1941
Tet offensive 1968

[JerryBlackwell]

I suggest replacing army group center with Stalingrad...the Germans knew better than to try to take the city and did so anyway. Would have taken the back door to Suez if they just by passed that one city.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[archy]

I’ve always considered Coral Sea and Midway as almost one battle with a one month pause. Both were part of a response to one overall campaign by Japan consisting of diversionary attacks in New Guinea and the Aleutians followed by the main attack on Midway.

Many of the records of the 4th Marine Regiments and the Army's 31st Infantry Regiment from the final days of the US Military presence in China during WWII remain classified to this day. One reason may have been technical reports as to the use of chemical weapons by the Japanese during the Battle for Shanghai, and another may have been the presence of a member of the Japanese Imperial family in the ranks of the Japanese senior commanders. In any event, Major, later LtCol [eventually Major General] William A. Wortonran some VERY high-level intelligence operations in the area at the time, with only two other officers in the country knowing about his operations, and acting under Presidential authority. I really doubt the whole story has ever been told, and likely never will be.

Author James Brady touched on the period and events with his novel about Billy Port's Ride. It's one of the greatest stories of leadership, courage, and personal heroism the USMC can be proud of.