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Baldwin, Hanson Weightman was born on March 22, 1903 in Baltimore. Son of Oliver Perry and Caroline (Sutton) Baldwin.
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For at least thirty-five years, the United States has been at war with enemies sworn to its destruction. It did not seek enmity or hostilities with them. Both are the product of forces that long predated the establishment of this country, to say nothing of its adoption toward the end of the 20th Century of policies towards the Middle East or other regions. For much of this period, the U.S. government has pursued various strategies – including selective military engagements, benign neglect, willful blindness and outright appeasement – that have in common one very low common denominator: They all ignore the aforementioned realities and, as a practical matter, have exacerbated them. A lack of clarity about these realities or a strategy for dealing effectively with them has contributed to a strategic environment of great and growing danger and a wholly inadequate American capacity for contending with such perils. This paper recommends corrective actions, starting with a clear-eyed understanding of the enemy we confront – namely, an international, ideologically driven Global Jihad Movement and its enablers – and the essential elements of an effective strategy for countering it. The alternative approach is modeled after the successful strategy President Ronald Reagan pursued to defeat Soviet communism, embodied in his National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 75.
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In Battles Lost & Won: Great Campaigns of World War II, military editor and analyst of the New York Times, Hanson Baldwin evaluates eleven crucial battles, describing what happened in each and why. In the words of the author, "each [of these battles] was an entity; many were a turning point; upon some the scales of history rested." The battles analyzed are the Polish campaign, the battle of Britain, the invasion of Crete, the fall of Corregidor, Stalingrad, the Sicilian campaign, Tarawa, the invasion of Normandy, Leyte Gulf, the battle of the Bulge and Okinawa.
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BATTLES LOST AND WON: GREAT CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAR II The military editor and analyst of the New York Times evaluates eleven crucial battles of the Second World War, analyzing what happened in each and why, as well as the larger results. Describing his purpose in this volume, Mr. Baldwin says: "The eleven selected battles present a cross-section of the world's greatest war-from the Polish campaign, where blitzkrieg was born, to Okinawa, 'the last battle', where the kamikaze portended the coming menace of the missile. Each battle described was, in fact, more than a battle; each was so extensive in time and space and comprised so many separate episodes of struggle that each transcended the older meaning of the word 'battle' and was, in essence, a campaign. Yet each was an entity; many were a turning point; upon some, the scales of history rested. In addition to the Polish campaign and Okinawa, Mr. Baldwin re-creates the Battle of Britain; the airborne invasion of Crete; the American defense of Corregidor; the Battle of Stalingrad, which broke the Nazi armies in the East; the struggle for Sicily; the hell of Tarawa; the greatest seaborne invasion of all time--D-Day at Normandy; the last massive sea battle--Leyte Gulf; and the final, desperate Battle Of The Bulge. Written for both the general reader and the expert, BATTLES LOST AND WON combines most effectively the emotional and dramatic immediacy of tremendous events with the knowledge and wisdom of afteryears. 532 Pages
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Baldwin, Hanson Weightman was born on March 22, 1903 in Baltimore. Son of Oliver Perry and Caroline (Sutton) Baldwin.
Student, Boys' Latin School, Baltimore. Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy, 1924.
Commissioned ensign, United States Navy, 1924; advanced through grades to Lieutenant (junior grade), United States Navy served aboard battleships and a destroyer, United States Navy resigned, United States Navy, 1927; police reporter, general assigment reporter, Baltimore Sun, 1928-1929; with, New York Times, 1929-1991; military and naval correspondent, New York Times, 1937-1942; military editor, New York Times, 1942-1991.
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Author: (with W.F. Palmer) Men and Ships of Steel, 1935, The Caissons Roll-A Military Survey of Europe, 1938, Admiral Dealth, 1939, What the Citizen Should Know About the Navy, 1941, United We Stand, 1941, Strategy for Victory, 1942, The Price of Power, 1948, Great Mistakes of the War, 1950, Sea Fights and Shipwrecks, 1955, The Great Arms Race, 1958, World War I: An Outline History, 1962, Battles Lost and Won: Great Campaigns of World World War II, 1966, Strategy for Tomorrow, 1970. Editor: (with Shepard Stone) We Saw It Happen, 1938. Contributor to New York Times magazine, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, Sat. Evening Post.
Married Helen Bruce, June 8, 1931. Children: Barbara, Bruce, Elizabeth.