Within this cultural atmosphere, an exemplar such as George Marshall offers a thought-provoking alternative, indeed a salutary challenge. We live in an era in which American young people-including almost all the media-saturated students I teach-see religious belief expressed in public action as a baleful thing therefore, their opinions typically include a blanket endorsement of a stark separation of Christianity and commonwealth. What writers have failed to do is to go deeper and ask: What lay beneath Marshall's actions? What were his core beliefs? But the Marshall biography is pretty much in place.
There are some topics in which interesting debates about Marshall's record can still occur: Pearl Harbor, racial integration in the armed forces, Operation TORCH, a possible cross-Channel invasion a year or two before D-Day, troop training and replacement, battlefield equipment, the atomic bomb, China and Chiang, the recognition of Israel, and MacArthur in Korea. Another group of scholars has examined this historical record and distilled from the biography of George Marshall important lessons in principled management. If he is remembered at all, it is only by way of two routes: One set of books and articles focuses on Marshall as a major figure in World War II and a statesman of influence in the immediate It's a pity that few American university students know the name or accomplishments of George Catlett Marshall, Jr., a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1943.
Marshall's Core Convictions & Ethical Leadership by David Hein
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