For the first time, National Geographic Channel gathers America's leading war generals for an unprecedented look at fifty years of military history, from the Vietnam War to America's war on Al-Qaeda.
American War Generals
In this two hour special, America's leading combat generals talk about how they spent their careers training to fight a conventional enemy like the Soviet Union, with tanks, clear frontlines and an enemy in uniform, but then found themselves bogged down fighting guerilla wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11---the very type of war the Army hoped it would never again fight after Vietnam.