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How regrettable that the document has no named author, other than the official sponsor. The advice stands or falls without it, still one would like to know the
by jrd259 6y ago
How regrettable that the document has no named author, other than the official sponsor. The advice stands or falls without it, still one would like to know the name of the one who advocated so well for clear writing.
- chipsa 6y agoGovernment pamphlets like this typically don't have one author.
- animal_spirits 6y ago"In 1950, the great Soldier-Statesman George C. Marshall, then serving as the Secretary of Defense, signed a cover page for a new book titled The Armed Forces Officer. That original version of this book was written by none other than S.L.A. Marshall, who later explained that Secretary Marshall had “inspired the undertaking due to his personal conviction that American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally.” Written at the dawn of the nuclear age and the emergence of the Cold War, it addressed an officer corps tasked with developing a strategy of nuclear deterrence, facing unprecedented deployments, and adapting to the creation of the Department of Defense and other new organizations necessary to manage the threats of a new global order." [0] https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Publications/Books/Armed-Forces-Officer/ https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Publications/Books/Armed-Forces-Off... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall