Harry G. Summers, Jr.

Harry G. Summers, Jr. (May 6, 1932 - November 14, 1999) is best known as the author of the neo-Clausewitzean analysis of the Vietnam War, titled, "On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War" (1982). Summers was an infantry colonel in the United States Army, and had served as a squad leader in the Korean War and as a battalion and corps operations officer in the Vietnam War. Colonel Summers was was also an instructor and Distinguished Fellow at the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlise, Pennsylvania., and served on the negotiation team for the United States at the end of the Vietnam War.

Aside from his books, Col. Summers wrote a syndicated national newspaper column on national security affairs for the Los Angeles Times, and was the editor of Vietnam Magazine. He was also a frequent speaker at colleges, lectures, and debates.

During Operation Desert Storm, Col. Summers served as a color analyst and commentator on the live, ongoing network news broadcasts and became a familiar face to the television viewers for a time. In 1992 he wrote a book on that war, predictabily titled, "On Strategy II: A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War".

Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr. (Ret.) died on November 14, 1999, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, at the age of 67 years.

Partial bibliography

Books

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=-Z4l-ZySVWwC "On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War"] , Harry G. Summers, Presidio press, 1982, ISBN 0891415637, ISBN 9780891415633 (225 pages)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=2vF2AAAACAAJ "On Strategy II: A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War"] , Harry G. Summers, Dell, 1992, ISBN 0440211948, ISBN 9780440211945 (302 pages)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=6owEAAAACAAJ "Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War"] , Harry G Summers, Stanley Karnow, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1995 ISBN 0395722233, ISBN 9780395722237 (224 pages)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=OYvjA_GuUysC "The New World Strategy: A Military Policy for America's Future"] , Harry G. Summers, Simon & Schuster, 1995, ISBN 0684812088, ISBN 9780684812083 (270 pages)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=VHoyIgAACAAJ "Persian Gulf War Almanac"] , Harry G. Summers, Facts on File, 1995, ISBN 0816028214, ISBN 9780816028214 (301 pages)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=AvAAAAAACAAJ "The Vietnam War Almanac"] , Harry G. Summers, Presidio/Ballantine Books, 1999, ISBN 0891416927, ISBN 9780891416920 (432 pages)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=9ulHAQAACAAJ&dq=%22Korean+War+Almanac%22 "Korean War Almanac"] , Harry G. Summers, Jr., Replica Books, 1999, ISBN 0735102090, ISBN 9780735102095 (348 pages)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=MIENAAAACAAJ "On Strategy: The Vietnam War in Context"] , Harry G Summers, Jr., Lightning Source Inc, 2002, ISBN 1410204197, isbn 9781410204196 (152 pages)

Book contributions

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=TuQIAAAACAAJ "Desert Storm"] , edited by Military History Magazine, with Foreword By Harry Summers Jr., Howell Press, 1991, ISBN 0943231469, ISBN 9780943231464 (176 pages)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=FYYTGP2qnQsC "Phoenix and the Birds of prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam"] ; Mark Moyar, Contributor Harry G. Summers, Jr., Published by U of Nebraska Press, 2007 ISBN 0803216025, ISBN 9780803216020 (496 pages)

Other

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=N6mIHAAACAAJ "Principles of War: The American Genesis"] ; Reprint of Major (later Colonel) Edward S. Johnston's 1934 article, "The Science of War" with introduction and commentary by Colonel Wallace P. Franz, Infantry and Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., Infantry.

External links

* [http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/SummersObitText.htm Tribute to Harry Summers on Clausewitz.com]
* [http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Summers/summers1.html Six-page "Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley" interview with Harry Summers]
* [http://web.nps.navy.mil/FutureWarrior/Remarks/Pang-Sum.html Naval Postgraduate School comments by Harry Summers]
* [http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/documents/swjmag/v3/collins.htm Small Wars Journal review of On Strategy]