Notes:
[1] Even professional historians often could not escape this intellectual paradigm, see: Jonathan M House, A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014). Jonathan M House, A Military History of the Cold War, 1962–1991 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).
[2] Michael D Mahler, Tales from the Cold War: The U.S. Army in West Germany 1960-1975 (Dahlonega, Georgia: University Press of North Georgia, 2021), Table of Contents.
[3] Ingo Trauschweizer, The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War, Modern War Studies (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008).
[4] Mahler, Tales from the Cold War, xiii. Andrew J Bacevich, The Pentomic Era: The U. S. Army between Korea and Vietnam (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1986).
[5] Mahler, Tales from the Cold War, chapter 13. John Romjue, The Army of Excellence: The Development of the 1980s Army (Washington D.C.: Office of the Command Historian, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1997).
[6] Deye Li, “Soldiers, the City, and the State: The Berlin Problem and the US Military, 1960-1965” (Undergraduate Honor Thesis, 2022). For a glimpse of the surging tension between deterrence and limited war following the Vietnam War, see: Eric Michael Burke, “Ignoring Failure General DePuy and the Dangers of Interwar Escapism,” Military Review, 2023, 42-57.
[7] The consensus in contemporary philosophy of history is that historical understanding is impossible without a process of creative interpretation. Hayden V White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). Bruce Kuklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 156-9. Marc Trachtenberg, The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), chapter 1, 3.
[8] Mahler, Tales from the Cold War, 45.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Ibid, 72.
[11] Ibid, 88.
[12] Ibid, 155.
[13] Ingo Trauschweizer, The Cold War U.S. Army.
[14] FM 3-0 Operations (Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, 2022), 3–6.
[15] Mahler, Tales from the Cold War, x, 157.
[16] Ibid, 87-96.
[17] Ibid, 132-33.
[18] Ibid, 133, 144-45.
[19] Jasen J Castillo, Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military Cohesion (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014), chapter 2. Edward A. Shils and Morris Janowitz, “Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II,” Public Opinion Quarterly 12, no. 2 (1948): 280, https://doi.org/10.1086/265951.
[20] Mahler, Tales from the Cold War, 149. This also contributes to the study of gender equality and military effectiveness from the lens of familial relations.
[21] Ibid.
[22] Ibid, 139.
[23] Rex Childers, “Cold Warriors, Good Neighbors, Smart Power: US Army, Berlin, 1961-1994” (Ph.D. dissertation, 2015), 6.
[24] Mahler, Tales from the Cold War, 97-98.
[25] Ibid, 153.
[26] Ibid, 118-20.
[27] Ibid, 116.
[28] Ibid, xii.
[29] Brian McAllister Linn, Elvis’s Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield (Harvard University Press, 2016), 158-59.
[30] Stephen Morillo and Michael F Pavkovic, What Is Military History?, Third Edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Polity Press, 2018), 39–44.
[31] Mahler, Tales from the Cold War, 64-8.
