Surviving the Nuclear Battlefield: The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Army’s Pentomic Divisions

“In the search for maximum dispersion on an atomic battlefield, the Pentomic division traded the proven flexibility of combined arms for an unwieldy reliance on non-existent technology and a span of control that set commanders up for failure.” The Threat of Obscurity and “Massive Retaliation” When Eisenhower assumed the presidency, his primary directive was to […]