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