Strategic Vision of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - Paperback

by U. S. Army War College (Author)

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was the founder of the Republic of Turkey andits first president. Among the great leaders of history, few achieved somuch in so short a period, or transformed the life of a nation as decisively, or has given such profound inspiration to the world at large.His strategic vision can be divided into two parts; first in military areaand second in the political area.Emerging as a military hero at the Dardanelles in 1915, he became thecharismatic leader of the Turkish national liberation struggle in 1919. Heblazed across the world scene in the early 1920s as a triumphantcommander who crushed the invaders of his country.As a president for 15 years, until his death in 1938, Mustafa KemalAtaturk introduced a broad range of swift and sweeping reforms in thepolitical, social, legal, economic, and cultural spheres virtually unparalleledin any other country