Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
World War II saw the first generation of young men that had
grown up comfortable with modern industrial technology go into
combat. Tinkers, problem-solvers, risk-takers, and day-dreamers,
they were curious and outspoken - a generation well prepared to
improvise, innovate, and adapt technology on the battlefield. This
text brings together three disparate brands of history: military
history; the history of science and technology; and social,
economic, cultural, and intellectual history. All combine to tell
the process by which GI ingenuity became an enduring feature of the
American citizen-soldier.
More About the Speakers
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Author,
GI Ingenuity
and
Senior Research Fellow,
Defense and National Security,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis
Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation