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Zapper27 posted a review of Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

Sun, 03 Sep 2017 02:09:33 GMT

“Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughte” read more

Zapper27 posted a review of Dereliction of Duty : Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

Sun, 03 Sep 2017 02:03:45 GMT

“"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." - H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)

Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how and why the United States became in” read more

Zapper27 posted a review of Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (text only) by P. Paret,G. A. Craig, F. Gilbert

Sun, 03 Sep 2017 01:53:28 GMT

“The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice o” read more

Zapper27 posted a review of The Art of War

Sun, 03 Sep 2017 01:48:17 GMT

“Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War i” read more

Zapper27 posted a review of Carl Von Clausewitz on War

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 01:42:46 GMT

“Carl von Clausewitz's On War has been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great book on war." It is an extraordinary attempt to construct an all-embracing theory of how war works. Its coherence and ambition are unmatched by other military literature. On War is full of sharp observat” read more