PS Magazine, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly (1971 Editions)
The Preventive Maintenance Monthly published 12 editions in 1971. From May 1940 to…
- Military History
- Biographies
- Militarians Biographies
Militarian - Biographies
War has proved to be man’s second most popular pastime throughout recorded history, supplying us with a vast number of historic warriors
What are some of the other characteristics of the great military leaders? What common ground can be found among people them? All-consuming ambition is usually one answer people offer. Some assume that great military leaders would ruthlessly sacrifice anyone and everything to get their goals. Certainly, that is true sometimes. Even if ambition is something these military leaders shared, then it must be stressed that some of them fought for larger and more selfless causes.
Uncompromising determination (to the extent of being reckless) is what best distinguishes many military leaders, and a lot of them have exerted their will and courage in ways that have shaped world history.
General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
Militarians Biographies
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was born in Trenton, New Jersey and grew up in the US and later in Iran. His father was a brigadier general and had headed the investigation of the famous Lindbergh kidnapping case.
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Militarians Biographies
Smuts was born near Riebeeck West (near Malmesbury), Cape Colony on September 24, 1870. The son of a member of the colonial parliament, he was sent to school at 12, and four years later attended Victoria College at Stellenbosch. There he met his future wife Sybella (Isie) Krige. In 1891 he attended Cambridge, where he read for the Bar.
General Joseph Warren Stilwell
Militarians Biographies
Joseph Warren Stilwell was born on March 19, 1883, in Palatka, Florida and grew to know more about China than anyone else in the United States Army. Two decades before World War II, he spent four years studying Chinese art, literature, and language, and its military history. Years later, his two daughters gained similar interests. One was a musician who performed Chinese music; the other was a painter who imitated the style of Chinese artists.
General Hideki Tojo (Tōjō)
Militarians Biographies
During the period of World War II, the only man the people of the Allied nations hated as much as Adolf Hitler was probably Hideki Tojo. Yet, unlike Hitler, a genuine (if evil) political leader, Tojo was little more than the bureaucratic head of the military regime that dominated the Japanese empire. Not a popular leader to his countrymen, he gained a reputation among his fellow bureaucrats as "The Razor" a hyper efficient bureaucrat who knew how to get things done.
Joachim Friedrich von Heydebreck
Militarians Biographies
Joachim von Heydebreck was born on October 6, 1861 in Schwedt as the son of Lieutenant General Hennig von Heydebreck (1828-1904) and his wife, Anna von Colmar (1837-1879). He attended the Royal Pedagogy in Putbus and entered military service at nineteen.
General Georgy Zhukov
Militarians Biographies
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was born in a village in Kaluga Province, southwest of Moscow, at the end of 1896. He joined the Novgorod dragoons in 1915, rose to sergeant, and twice received the St. George's Cross. After learning military tactics in the Czar's army, Zhukov joined the new Red Army when the Bolshevik Revolution brought down the Czar.
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