![]() ![]() 37,000 American lives to prove it.įehrenbach’s framework is tragic. The Communists, he writes, doubted that the United States “had the will to react quickly and practically and without panic in a new situation.” They were wrong, but it cost ca. He understands the Korean conflict not as a test of power but of wills, in particular, of American will. This Kind of War originally appeared in 1963 with the subtitle of A Study in Unpreparedness and was republished in a new edition in 1994.Īlthough This Kind of War starts with a quotation from Sun Tzu, Fehrenbach adopts a Clausewitzian approach. ![]() But he also wrote the sad and beautiful Comanches: The Destruction of a People (1974), which shows great admiration for Native Americans. He is remembered for the bestselling Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans (1968), whose emphasis on gun-slinging white men now makes it politically incorrect. A journalist rather than an academic, Fehrenbach (1925-2013) wrote larger-than-life history of a heroic bent. ![]()
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