Imperial Grunts, The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan; 2005; 421 pages; Random House, New York, NY; 1-4000-6132-6; 8/13-8/21
Robert Kaplan travels the globe meeting real soldiers and marines. He did not hang with a bunch of REMF but hung with the troops on the front lines in many different places from Colombia [...]
Gates of Fire, An Epic Novel of The Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield; 1998; 386 pages; Doubleday, New York, NY; 0-385-49251-0; 7/4/09- 7/11/09
My knowledge of the Battle of Thermopylae came courtesy of the trailer for the movie 300. I don’t know if I know any more now after having read this, but my appreciation [...]
Battle Leadership, Some Personal Experiences of a Junior Officer of the German Army with Observations on Battle Tactics and the Psychological Reactions of Troops in Campaign by Adolf Von Schell, Captain Staff Corps, German Army; 1933; 95 pages; The Benning Herald, Fort Benning-Columbus, GA; Interlibrary Loan from the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; 6/22/09-6/25/09
This little [...]
The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick; 1958; 285 pages; W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY; 5/12/09-5/15/09
In the days when the French where still fighting in Vietnam and Americans thought it could never happen to them, Lederer and Burdick wrote a scathing book about diplomacy among Americans. Most of the career [...]