1. Mark A. Stoler, George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1989), ix.
2. See Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Global Commander, The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History. Number 10 (Colorado Springs, CO: United States Air Force Academy, 1968)
3. Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945–1959 (New York: Viking, 1987), 1.
4. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans. Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), 89.
5. Letter, Glen C.H. Perry to Edmond P. Bartnett, February 18, 1944, in “Dear Bart”: Washington Views of World War II (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982), 249.