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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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America’s ‘Last Battle’ of the Vietnam War was a Fiasco

by Jerry D. Morelock5/21/20197/29/2019
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Vietnam War Officer’s Ideas Changed Postwar Army

by Jerry D. Morelock1/29/201912/16/2019
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Dr. Gatling’s Wonder Weapon

by Jerry D. Morelock1/15/201912/14/2022
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More Terrifying Than the Viet Cong? U.S. Soldiers in Vietnam Battled With ‘Monster Rats’

by Jerry D. Morelock10/30/20184/14/2023
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Media Digest | General Loved by His Troops, But Not His Bosses

by Jerry D. Morelock9/18/201812/14/2022
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CIA Man Thought He Had Winning Formula

by Jerry D. Morelock5/15/20187/2/2021
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WWII Book Review: Stalingrad

by Jerry D. Morelock4/25/2018
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WWII Book Review: Leningrad

by Jerry D. Morelock4/23/2018
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Conversation Piece: J.E.B. The Inventor

by Jerry D. Morelock2/6/201812/14/2022
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Conversation Piece: Faulty Tower

by Jerry D. Morelock9/19/201712/14/2022

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