2004 William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium

The 2004 William E. Colby Military Writers Symposium Participants The New Face of War April 7-9 , 2004, Norwich University



	MAJ Robert L. Bateman, USA Robert Bateman served as an officer with the 7th Cavalry Regiment, was an associate professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He edited Digital War: A View from the Front Lines and has authored over thirty articles and essays published in scholarly and professional journals.	No Gun Ri : A Military History of the Korean War Incident Compelled by the known fallacies in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press story of the alleged slaughter of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri, Major Bateman presents an alternate explanation of the events through the perspective of the soldiers and their commanders, the 1948-50 South Korean civil war, and the broader state of U.S. military policy and force readiness. - Stackpole Books



	Robert Clasby Robert Clasby operates Historic Graphics, Inc., illustrators of militaria. A former professional football player, he was a starting defensive tackle for the NFL's St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals from 1986-1990. His book, Gettysburg: You Are There, is a photographic recreation of pivotal moments in the Battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863. An exhibition of Mr. Clasby's prints is on display at Kreitzberg Library through June 2004.	Gettysburg: You Are There Essentially a colorful Civil War reenactment in book form, this volume uses photos and digital technology to reconstruct realistic and detailed images of key scenes in the battle. Well-selected photographs show each location as it was in 1863 and as it is today, along with some scenes from the 1880s. The digital reconstructions are the heart of the book, its most novel feature and the one likely to draw the most comment. On the whole, that comment should be favorable, as the painstaking work of the author's firm, Historic Graphics, renders an impressive combination of color, solidity and realism to each scene. - Publisher's Weekly



	Carlo D'Este Carlo D'Este, Symposium co-founder and a 1958 Norwich graduate, is the author of Patton: A Genius for War, which was the basis for the A & E Biography program by the same name. He is the author of Decision at Normandy, World War II in the Mediterranean, Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome, Bitter Victory: the Battle for Sicily, 1943 and Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life 1890-1945. He is currently at work on a biography of Winston Churchill.	Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life There is hardly a shortage of books about Dwight Eisenhower, but Carlo D'Este's Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life stands tall in this forest by virtue of the author's insistence on a too-often forgotten rule of biographers: show--don't tell about--the subject. Though D'Este doesn't neglect Eisenhower's early years (his sketch of the man's rambunctious West Point years is hearteningly entertaining), the book concentrates on his military career, including his years of treading water in the Philippines. -H. O'Billovich



	Joseph L. Galloway Joseph Galloway has had a distinguished journalistic career spanning four decades as a foreign war correspondent at United Press International, senior editor and writer for the U.S. News & World Report and currently as senior writer for Knight Ridder. With Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Hal G. Moore, he wrote the critically acclaimed We Were Soldiers Once…and Young based on his real life experiences in the initial engagement of the Vietnam War. He is the recipient of a Bronze Star Medal and the Medal of Valor of the U.S. Army awarded to a civilian for service during Vietnam. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Galloway "the finest combat correspondent of our generation—-a soldier's reporter and a soldier's friend."	We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young In the first significant engagement between American troops and the Viet Cong, 450 U.S. soldiers found themselves surrounded and outnumbered by their enemy. This book tells the story of how they battled between October 23 and November 26, 1965. Its prose is gritty, not artful, delivering a powerful punch of here-and-now descriptions that could only have been written by people actually on the scene. In fact, they were: Harold Moore commanded the men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who did most of the fighting, and Joseph Galloway was the only reporter present throughout the battle's 34 harrowing days. We Were Soldiers Once... combines their memories with more than 100 in-depth interviews with survivors on both sides. -John J. Miller



	W.E.B. Griffin W.E.B. Griffin is the co-founder of the Symposium and author of the popular Brotherhood of War, Men at War, Corps, Badge of Honor and Honor Bound series. His newest Corps novel, Retreat, Hell! is his 43rd consecutive New York Times best seller.	Retreat, Hell! Megaseller Griffin (Honor Bound; Brotherhood of War; Men at War) musters another solid entry in his series chronicling the history of the U.S. Marines, now engaged in the Korean War. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, nicknamed El Supremo by his subordinates, is taken by surprise when the North Korean Army surges south across the 38th parallel. After early losses, he rallies his troops and stems the tide, but not for long. Intertwining stories of literally an army of characters reveal how MacArthur and his sycophantic staff overlook the entire Red Chinese Army, which is massed behind the Yalu River and about to enter the war. -Publishers Weekly



	H.R. McMaster COL H.R. McMaster, the author of Dereliction of Duty, is currently the Director of the Commander's Advisory Group at US Central Command. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, COL McMaster holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina. He has taught at West Point and held numerous command and staff positions in armored and cavalry units. During the first Gulf War, he commanded Eagle Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, in combat against Iraq's Republican Guard. In June he will assume command of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment.	Dereliction of Duty An intriguing analysis that challenges the view that Cold War anticommunism was primarily responsible for American military intervention in Vietnam. In his first book, McMaster, a US Army major and Persian Gulf war veteran, and a historian who has taught at West Point, zeroes in on the actions of Lyndon Johnson and his top advisers from the time LBJ became president in November 1963 to the July 1965 decision to escalate the war drastically. The author makes a convincing case that domestic political considerations were behind the development of the failed strategy of graduated military pressure. - Kirkus Reviews



	Williamson Murray Williamson Murray received his Ph.D. in military diplomatic history at Yale University. An Air Force veteran, Dr. Murray has taught at Yale, the Air, Army, and Naval War Colleges, U.S. Military Academy , Marine Corps University, London School of Economics, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, and Ohio State University, of which he is a professor emeritus. He is currently a consultant at the Institute for Defense Analysis in Arlington, Virginia. His numerous books include Air War, 1914-1945, and he co-authored a number of works including AWar to Be Won: Fighting World War II and most recently, The Iraq War: A Military History with Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr.	The Iraq War In this operational history, they eschew discussion of such abstractions as whether the war was a "revolution in military affairs." Instead, they show how, since the Gulf War of 1991, each of the services (Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines) improved its mastery of the craft of war: individually integrating technology, training, and doctrine while at the same time cultivating a "jointness" that eroded, if it did not quite eliminate, traditional rivalries at the operational level. -Publisher's Weekly



	Geoffrey Perret Geoffrey Perret received his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California, was awarded a graduate fellowship at Harvard and studied law at the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Perret has written There's a War to Be Won, Winged Victory, Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur, Ulysses S. Grant, Eisenhower and JACK: A Life Like No Other. Mr. Perret has also been a consultant on several televised historical documentaries. His newest book, Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America 's Greatest President as Commander in Chief, will be published in April 2004.	Lincoln's War Lincoln is lauded for his skills as a political leader, his moral strength, and his unyielding devotion to popular government in the U.S. as the "last, best, hope of man." He is seldom praised for his military acumen or even for his choice of subordinates in his role as commander in chief. Perret has written three presidential biographies and four works of military history. Here he provides an interesting and sometimes provocative view of Lincoln that credits him with far greater skills as a commander than is generally realized. Furthermore, Perret asserts that Lincoln redefined forever the role of commander in chief, assuming powers that were previously considered the province of Congress. This is a well-argued work that will be a valuable addition to Civil War collections. - Booklist



	MAJOR GENERAL RAY L. SMITH, USMC (RET.) General Smith is one of the most decorated marines since World War II and served as a rifle company commander in the battle for Hue City in 1968. He commanded the Marines in Grenada in 1983 and in Beirut. He later commanded the 3rd Marine Division. General Smith is a national expert on infantry and urban warfare.	The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1 st Marine Division This very readable eyewitness history of the 1st Marine Division in the recent Iraq War was penned by two very qualified observers: both West and Smith served in Vietnam as Marines; Smith also served in Grenada and Beruit, while West (The Village; The Pepperdogs) is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense. Unsurprisingly, their account of Marines advancing from Kuwait to Baghdad-and thereby ending up farther from the sea than any Marines in history-is far from anti-military. Perhaps more unexpectedly, though, they present their campaign history warts and all. The portrait of the division owes its breadth to interviews from several hundred sources, not all of whom survived. - Publishers Weekly


	BING WEST F. J. “Bing” West served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan Administration. He was a Marine infantry officer in Vietnam, where he wrote Small Unit Action, a firsthand description of the combat. He is also the author of The Village, a Vietnam classic, and the bestselling war novel The Pepperdogs. For more information about Bing West visit www.westwrite.com.