Summary General Lesley McNair - Unsung Architect of the US Army and his death in Operation Cobra The first of three specials about Operation Cobra George C. Marshall once called him "the brains of the army," and yet General Lesley McNair, a man so instrumental to America's military preparedness and Army modernization, remains little known today, his papers purportedly lost, destroyed by his wife in her grief at his death in Normandy. In today's show Mark Calhoun will look at McNair;s career up to his death at the beginning of Operation Cobra. Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Mark T. Calhoun served as a US Army aviator and war planner for twenty years. After retirement, he earned his PhD in History from the University of Kansas, and began working as an associate professor of history at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies, where he still works, teaching military history and advanced military operational art and science.

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