Russell Weigley

Russell Frank Weigley (WY-glee) (July 2, 1930 – March 3, 2004) was the

Education and career

Weigley was born in

Scholarship and ideas

Weigley's graduate teaching emphasized military history defined in a broadly comprehensive way, including operational, combat history but also extending to the larger issues of war and its significance; to the history of ideas about war, peace, and the armed forces; and to the place of the soldier in the state and in society.

Honors and awards

Weigley was awarded a

Weigley died in Philadelphia on March 3, 2004, of a heart attack.[7] He was survived by his wife of 40 years, Emma Seifrit Weigley (1933-2020), his son Jared, and his daughter Catherine.

Selected works

• Quartermaster General of the Union Army: A Biography of M.C. Meigs. Columbia University Press, 1959.
• Towards an American Army: Military Thought from Washington to Marshall (1962)
• History of the United States Army (1967)
• "The Partisan War: The South Carolina Campaign of 1780–1782. University of South Carolina Press, 1970.
• The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy,
  Macmillan Publishing
  , New York (1973)
• New Dimensions in Military History: An Anthology Edited by Russell F. Weigley. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, (1975)
• "American Strategy from its Beginnings through the First World War." In Peter Paret, Ed. with Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert, Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Ages. Princeton University Press, 1986.
• Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945 (1981)
• "The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars." The
  Journal of Military History
  (January 1990) with Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb.
• The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo (1991)
• "The Chairman: John J. McCloy, the Making of the American Establishment." Political Science Quarterly (January 1992) with Kai Bird.
• "The American Military and the Principle of Civilian Control From McClellan to Powell." The Journal of Military History (January 1993).
• A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 – 1865 (2000)
• "Normandy and Falaise: A Critique of Allied Operational Planning in 1944", In Michael E. Krause, R. Cody Phillips, Eds. Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2007, 393-414.

"Reflections on 'Lessons' from Vietnam", in Peter Braestrup, Ed. Vietnam as History: Ten Years after the Paris Accords. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1984, 115–124.

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