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VIETNAM WAR OFFICER’S IDEAS CHANGED POSTWAR ARMY

Crusader: General Donn Starry and the Army of His Times

By Mike Guardia, Casemate, 2018

Former U.S. Army armor officer Mike Guardia has made the most of his second career as an insightful military biographer. The talented author of a 2013 book about Vietnam War battalion commander Hal Moore, subtitled A Soldier Once…and Always, has often focused his considerable research and writing skills on Army leaders unfairly overlooked, including World War II special operations heroes Russell W. Volckmann (American Guerrilla, 2010) and Donald D.

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