A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Colonel Reinhardt served throughout World War II in the European theater as a commander of an Engineer Combat Group. After VE Day, he was G-4 of the First Provisional Logistical Command in Germany, and later Engineer, Berlin Command. He is now the head of the Logistics Section of the Department of Analysis and Research at The Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Articles by George C. Reinhardt

The Doctrinal Gap

by Colonel George C. Reinhardt, U. S. Army (Retired) & Illustrations by William A. Berry
August 1966
When the United States astonished the Communist bloc by hastening to rescue the infant Republic of Korea from a “bandit foray” and stayed to confront the armed hordes of Communist ...

Policy: Matrix Of Strategy

By Colonel George C. Reinhardt, U. S. Army, and Lieutenant Colonel William R. Kintner, U. S. Army
February 1954
The sacred cow of top level defense planning, that policy determines strategy, is honored by all military writers and taught to all military students. Service School diagrams illustrate this axiom ...

Sea Power's Rôle In Atomic Warfare

By Colonel George C. Reinhardt, C.E., U. S. Army
December 1953
The challenge atomic weapons pose for today’s navies may well influence the future of sea power as radically as the nineteenth century’s shift from sail to steam. Consequently, the Secretary ...

Mediterranean Theater: The Iron Curtain By-Pass

By Colonel George C. Reinhardt, U. S. Army, and Lieutenant Colonel William R. Kintner, U. S. Army
June 1953
The place assigned the Mediterranean area in the NATO military structure is that of a secondary theater of operation rather than a prime factor in world strategy. The North Atlantic ...

The Need for a National Staff

By Colonel George C. Reinhardt, U. S. Army, and Lieutenant Colonel William R. Kintner, U. S. Army
July 1952
Twice within the life-span of many living Americans, the military and industrial might of this country has proved decisive in winning world wars. Yet, appraised in the balance sheet of ...

Air Power Needs Its Mahan

By Colonel George C. Reinhardt, U. S. Army
April 1952
Wars, like the men who fight them, had their origin on land. As mankind took to the sea, he long carried with him the habits of his original environment. For ...

Dunkirk—Miracle or Blunder?

By Colonel George C. Reinhardt, C. E., U.S. Army
July 1951
Those who prefer to believe in miracles will resent the idea that the headline filling story of Dunkirk’s evacuation, just ten years ago this month, was compounded more from the ...