in that Command Decision explores the pressures of leadership, political in-fighting, moral conflicts, and psychological effects rather than glamorizing combat, and frankly admitting the high losses in men and materiel that characterized air combat. It also takes a "warts and all" approach to the conduct of some U.S. military leaders, depicting occasional propaganda misrepresentations, personal ambitions, opportunism, and information clampdowns in the name of security. The protagonist of the story is a general who must choose between submitting to public relations demands and doing what must be done to defeat Germany. He chooses the latter and is relieved of his command for it, leading to the death of his closest friend in the process. References "William Wister Haines", Famous Iowans, Des Moines Register 1908 births 1989 deaths American male screenwriters United States Army Air Forces officers United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Writers from Des Moines, Iowa People from Laguna Niguel, California Screenwriters from California Screenwriters from Iowa Culver Academies alumni 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters United States Army colonels Theodore Roosevelt High School (Iowa) alumni Military personnel from California Military personnel from Iowa Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)