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Howard C. Berkowitz
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« on: October 05, 2008, 05:30:20 PM » |
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I'm interested in starting some related articles about ANZAC roles in the First and Second World Wars, as well as more recent alliance, which mix history, politics, and military specifics. It's definitely a case where international viewpoints are needed (with some additions below)
This notice is here because it might catch the eye of people who might not usually be authors in History, Military, or Politics, but might find an interest.
Anyone interested in working together on any of these subjects?
WWI *Dardanelles Campaign (UK, Turkish, German input also welcome) **Roger Keyes (and, I suppose, Sackville Carden and John de Robeck) (all UK here) ***Battle of/Gallipoli Campaign ****John Monash1 ****Ian Hamilton2 ****Frederick Stopford2 ****There is an article on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; some additional detail about this battle would be useful
*WWII I shall preface this by saying I haven't had the courage to start an article on Douglas MacArthur. As I remember, William Manchester, his most noted biographer, commented afterwards that he still couldn't make up his mind about the man. **Anyway, his interactions with Thomas Blamey and the government are worthy of note. **North African campaign -- I'm conversant, but certainly no expert.
I have written some material, in signals intelligence, about Australian and US work. **Eric Nave, possibly.
The intelligence component feeds into a number of still-sensitive and ongoing intelligence cooperation agreements, the first being the "UKUSA Agreement" of 1948, which may or may not have been separate from the agreement about we're-not-sure-what-it-is-but-it's-called-ECHELON with Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In U.S. defense policy, there's quite a bit about the "Quadripartite", New Zealand not being in this due its nuclear weapons policy. I'm not sure there is enough about the Quadripartite to make an article, although it does appear in several articles about intelligence topics.
Notes
1. In my less than humble opinion, John Monash (Australian) and Arthur Currie (Canadian) were probably the outstanding junior Allied generals of WWI. Their eventual commander, Julian Byng (UK) was definitely competent, but one of his greatest talents was being willing to recognize exceptional subordinates and help them do what they did best. 2. Perhaps I can't see their virtues from across the pond, and their performance was simply a matter of the Peter Principle, in a war where the Principle ran amok. Noted for historical completeness.
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