Edward G. Miller - Overview

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Sixty-six Hours to Manila. My new book from Texas A&M University Press is available now at:

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National WWII Museum Store: https://store.nationalww2museum.org/
National Museum of the Pacific War Store: https://store.pacificwarmuseum.org/

During World War II, the Japanese held over 130,000 "enemy alien" civilians throughout the Pacific—including nearly 78,000 women and children. Most of the 7,800 civilians rounded up in the Philippines were American expatriates, and at any one time, about half of these were held at the campus of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.

With the invasion of Luzon in January 1945, leaders were concerned that the Japanese would execute the starving prisoners as the US Army approached Manila. Out of other options, Douglas MacArthur ordered the 1st Cavalry Division to make a hurried and risky behind-the-lines attack. About 1,500 troopers and tankers set out at midnight 31 January – 1 February 1945. Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers and 100 miles stood between the captives and their liberators.

Until now, no book has effectively blended the story of the internees with the military operation to free them. I discuss many uncomfortable topics such as racism, collaboration with the enemy, and illicit personal relationships, and want today's reader to understand a neglected chapter in the story of World War II in the Pacific.

Don't confuse this with the liberation of the POW camp at Cabanatuan or the civilian camp at Los Baños. Santo Tomas was located far behind friendly lines at the time and surrounded by thousands of Japanese ready to torch the city and die.

The award-winning A Dark and Bloody Ground is now in its 5th printing and available through any bookseller or the publisher, Texas A&M University Press. Orders Toll Free (U.S. Only):1-800-826-8911

Association of the US Army

The home page of the US Army

Applied Battlefield Concepts uses the Army's proven 'battle staff ride' training model to communicate historical examples of crisis decision making to business executives.

Still in print! Check availability at https://www.usni.org/press/books (The US Naval Instutute Press) or your favorite bookseller's website.

Lessons in building and training of infantry units for combat

Selected Works

Magazine Articles

Chase's Flying Columns

Action in the Admiralties

Bad intelligence and haste led to landing fewer than 800 GIs on a beach held by several thousand Japanese soldiers in early 1944.

"Later on Leyte"

American assault troops race against Japanese reinforcements to secure the first foothold in the Philippines in late 1944. See the April 2016 issue of America in World War II.

"Singling"

GIs face off against German tanks in eastern France in December 1944. Appears in the September 2011 issue of Armchair General Magazine.

"All the Wrong Reasons"

The chain of decisionmaking that led to the Army's most disastrous WWII campaign appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of World War II Quarterly.

"Speed up Pace of Change in Multidomain World" (March 2018)

Current Military Commentary

"Army Doctrine Has Roots in WWII Pacific" (December 2017)

Leadership/Military History

Nothing Less Than Full Victory

Available now from the US Naval Institute Press

Military History

A Dark and Bloody Ground--the Hürtgen Forest and Roer River Dams 1944-1945

Before the Battle of the Bulge, there was the Hürtgen Forest.

WW2 TV on YouTube

Overview

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I am a Department of the Army–designated military historian and author of the award‑winning A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hürtgen Forest and Roer River Dams, 1944–1945, now in its fifth printing with Texas A&M University Press.

Learning from the challenges and solutions of others can save you and your organization time, money, and energy. Properly interpreted history in context can help you do that.

Tools like AI generate extraordinary value when used with discipline and prompted in the right way. The most innovative leaders are open to ideas, exercise mental agility and realize they may not be the smartest person in the room. It's not "all about the data." It is about context, judgment, and fact-based decisions.

I've advised the producers of the PBS series History Detectives and the American Experience documentary Salinger, and appeared on the Fox News/Business Channel series War Stories with Oliver North, WW2TV, and other venues. The Center for Army Leadership incorporated excerpts from A Dark and Bloody Ground into its instructional materials. I have more than 30 years of experience designing and leading experiential leadership programs at historical sites across Europe, and I partnered with award‑winning military historian Steven Ossad to develop programs that help executives make better decisions.

My US Army career included service in Germany and at the Pentagon—from a hand‑selected strategic planning team reporting directly to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, to managing logistics programs at the U.S. Army Special Operations Agency. I advised a presidentially appointed commission investigating a Korean War incident, contributed to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, and supported the review of retroactive Medal of Honor awards for African American and Asian American WWII soldiers.

A Dark and Bloody Ground examines the cost of senior leaders' failure to visualize long‑term objectives in a complex decision environment.

Nothing Less Than Full Victory uses small‑unit WWII combat case studies—D‑Day, Metz, the Battle of the Bulge, Remagen—to show how the U.S. Army transformed itself from a small constabulary force into a global military power in just four years.

Sixty‑Six Hours to Manila tells the story of the imprisonment and liberation of the largest group of U.S. civilians ever held captive outside the country—a study in crisis leadership and the resilience of the human spirit.

Contact me about my other publications and historical consulting work.

NEWS:

Here's the link to my recent appearance on WW2 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJCEr7nRHsg

My essay, "Generating and Sustaining US Combat Power in World War II" appears in the newly-released second edition of A Companion to World War II (published by Wiley-Blackwell). It addresses how leaders of the WWII era coped with the Defense Industrial Base and global logistics in an era of large-scale combat (sound familiar?)

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+the+Second+World+War%2C+2+Volume+Set%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781394208616#tableofcontents-section

My newest project is . . . well, let's just say that I'm investigating the leadership and decision-making behind a dramatic 1945 operation that shortened World War II in Europe.

A Companion to the Second World War