JC Wylie is best known for writing Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control.
11 Facts About JC Wylie
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JC Wylie was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 3,1911.
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JC Wylie graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1932.
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JC Wylie received his first command, USS Trever, in January 1943.
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JC Wylie later placed USS Ault into commission as commanding officer and completed his World War II service with a group tasked with countering kamikaze attacks during the planned invasion of Japan.
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JC Wylie retired from the US Navy on July 1,1972, after 44 years of service.
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JC Wylie died on January 29,1993, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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JC Wylie began writing Military Strategy, A Theory of Power Control.
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JC Wylie offered MacArthur's campaign in the Southwest Pacific, Nimitz's campaign in the Central Pacific, and Eisenhower's campaign in Europe as examples of sequential strategies.
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JC Wylie uses insurgencies and the US Navy's submarine campaign against Japan in World War II as examples of cumulative strategies.
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JC Wylie concluded Military Strategy by demonstrating how control underlies all strategy from courtship to diplomacy to terrorism to war.