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After his discharge, he remained in the United States Army Reserve, and attended the Texas College of Mines, now the University of Texas at El Paso. [10] In the early 1920s, he became a newspaper reporter and editor, first with the El Paso Herald, and later The Detroit News.
I'm Tom Bruscino, Professor at the War College and an Editor for War Room where I work on the Dusty Shelves series where we take new looks at older or forgotten books and documents. In keeping with that, our subject today is Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, better known as S.L.A. Marshall or sometimes by his byline Slam.
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S.L.A. Marshall at Fort Leavenworth, 1952 to 1962: Five Lectures at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. [Edited by Roger J. Spiller] Fort Leavenworth, 1980.
In keeping with that, our subject today is Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, better known as S.L.A. Marshall or sometimes by his byline Slam. I'm joined virtually today by three guests.
Apr 6, 2021 · Matthew Ford set his trap with a few sly comments about the ever controversial S.L.A. Marshall (SLAM) and three intrepid historians couldn’t help themselves but to jump into the fray. The result is a 2-part podcast with Matthew, Robert Engen, Rob Thompson and our DUSTY SHELVES editor Tom Bruscino.
Here, for the first time, Marshall gathered and interviewed, as a group, the American SUJvivors and recorded the story as an anonymous third person. Williams carefully documents Marshall's...
Although the ratio-of-fire figure was his most famous product, Marshall was proudest of his methodol-ogy—informal, open-ended, group interviews of enlisted personnel, as soon as possible after a particular combat action, to learn about the actual behavior of the soldiers in battle.
