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Author Archives: Jerry D. Morelock

Jerry D. Morelock, PhD, Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret., is a 1969 West Point graduate who served 36 years in uniform. A decorated Vietnam War combat veteran, his assignments included Pentagon tours on the Department of the Army staff and in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, Joint Chiefs of Staff. His final active duty assignment was head of the history department at the US Army Command & General Staff College. An award-winning author, he has published several books and hundreds of journal and magazine articles. His books include Generals of the Bulge: Leadership in the U.S. Army’s Greatest Battle, The Army Times Book of Great Land Battles: From the Civil War to the Gulf War, and (as a contributing author) Pershing’s Lieutenants: American Military Leadership in World War I edited by David Zabecki and Douglas Mastriano. After Army retirement, he was Executive Director of the Winston Churchill Memorial & Library at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri (2000-2004) and is adjunct faculty professor of history and political science at Westminster. He was Editor in Chief of Armchair General magazine (2004-2015), and currently is Senior Editor/Senior Historian for four Historynet military history magazines.

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Book Review: Showing A New Side to Rommel At War

by Jerry D. Morelock1/26/20241/26/2024

MHQ Senior Editor Jerry Morelock reviews “Erwin Rommel: First War, A New Look At Infantry Attacks.”

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Was George Armstrong Custer Really A Terrible Strategist?

by Jerry D. Morelock1/23/20243/31/2024
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Facing Doom At the Battle of the Bulge, This Tank Commander Wouldn’t Back Down

by Jerry D. Morelock9/21/20239/21/2023
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Why The Waffen-SS Are Overrated As World War II Combatants

by Jerry D. Morelock8/21/20238/21/2023
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What They Left Behind: Ernie Pyle Recalls the Carnage of Omaha Beach

by Ernie Pyle, Jerry D. Morelock and Zita Ballinger Fletcher8/14/20238/24/2023
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Revenge on the Rhine: How Rome Got Even After the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

by Tacitus, Jerry D. Morelock and Zita Ballinger Fletcher4/3/20234/3/2023
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Was ‘Bleeding Kansas’ Really That Violent?

by Jerry D. Morelock2/1/20232/1/2023
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Book Review: Danger Close! A Vietnam Memoir

by Jerry D. Morelock12/14/202212/14/2022
A narrow gap between the protestors and the riot police during a demonstration against the Vietnam War in Washington DC, 21st May 1972. 173 demonstrators were later arrested during a violent confrontation with the police. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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When Did the US Lose the Vietnam War? Here Are Some Dates

by Jerry D. Morelock11/17/20224/26/2024
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How Patton Saw the War—In His Own Photographs

by Jerry D. Morelock11/11/20223/31/2024

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