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‘Dusty Shelves’ is a recurring series in War Room. The podcasts and articles in this series will present historical artifacts, tell their stories, and relate the lessons learned to the modern environment. It will serve as a springboard for the US military to better remember parts of its past that it most risks forgetting. Dusty Shelves is presented in collaboration with the Army Heritage and Education Center, located at Carlisle Barracks.https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/dusty-shelves/dusty-shelves-series-bringing-military-history-life/

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Created January 16, 2020

Updated November 15, 2021

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  1. A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast

    RIDGWAY'S MEMO: "WHY WE ARE HERE" (DUSTY SHELVES)

    1Oct 27th, 201715m 42s
    Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgway assumed command of Eighth U.S. Army after it had been driven south in the early phases of the Korean War. Faced with a broken and dispirited force, Ridgway had to turn the situation around quickly. His memo
  2. A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast

    NSC-68: THE POLICY DOCUMENT THAT SHAPED THE COLD WAR (DUSTY SHELVES)

    1Dec 8th, 201724m 54s
    [PRESIDENT TRUMAN] WAS INTERESTED IN TAKING A LOOK AT AMERICA'S POSITION IN THE WORLD.In 1950, competition between the U.S. and its Allies and the Soviet Union was growing in intensity. Concerned over debt and seeming fragility of post-World W
  3. A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast

    BUILDING THE CONTINENTAL ARMY: VON STEUBEN'S 'BLUE BOOK' (DUSTY SHELVES)

    1Jan 19th, 201820m 36s
    [VON STEUBEN] WAS THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT PLACE AND THE RIGHT TIME.In the next installment of in our Dusty Shelves series, "Building the Continental Army: Von Steuben's 'Blue Book'," Jack Giblin and Jacqueline E. Whitt tell the story behind
  4. A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast

    RECEIPT: BOMB, ATOMIC, 1 EACH (DUSTY SHELVES)

    1Dec 19th, 201715m 20s
    This is a hand receipt unlike any other. … Imagine instead of signing for an office key or a computer, … you’ve just taken responsibility for the first atomic weapon.Military historian Con Crane tells the story behind an unusual hand receipt,
  5. A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast

    BOOK LOVERS NEED APPLY: A DUSTY SHELVES PODCAST

    1Nov 15th, 201931m 47s
    One of the things we’re trying to do is encourage people…to start talking about older books, older readings,The post BOOK LOVERS NEED APPLY: A DUSTY SHELVES PODCAST appeared first on War Room - U.S. Army War College.
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    COOK'S 'MIDNIGHT DRAWINGS' AND THEIR HAUNTING VIEWS OF WAR (DUSTY SHELVES)

    1Feb 6th, 201825m 13s
    [COOK SAID,] 'These faces. I didn't get to know all their names. They joined my platoon, and many of them were dead by morning.'For forty-six years after the Korean War, veteran John A. Cook would be haunted by the memories of fighting and of
  7. A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast

    HOW A HOMING PIGEON SAVED THE LOST BATTALION IN WORLD WAR I (DUSTY SHELVES)

    1Jun 18th, 201924m 43s
    Pigeons were treated with very high regard in the military … much like working dogs are today TechnologicalThe post HOW A HOMING PIGEON SAVED THE LOST BATTALION OF WORLD WAR I
    (DUSTY SHELVES) appeared first on War Room - U.S

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