Word: beukema
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Colonel Beukema started a course at West Point called The Resources for War of the Great Powers. Because there were few English textbooks on his subject, he wrote his own.* His basic texts: The Great Powers in World Politics, by Frank Simonds and Brooks Emeny; The Economics of War, by Horst Mendershausen...
This collegiate ground-breaking is due in no small part to an eleven-year campaign by a bronzed, lean artilleryman at West Point. He is Colonel Herman Beukema, 50, Michigan-born son of a smalltown newspaperman. A West Point graduate ('15), he was stationed in Germany for six months after World War I, there met three brilliant young German officers whose sensational theories about total war launched him on a career as student of geopolitics. Today Colonel Beukema declares that history will rate Karl Haushofer, prophet of German geopolitics, more important than Adolf Hitler, because Haushofer's studies...