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Book Review: Team America: Patton, Macarthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, And The World They Forged, Wylie W. Johnson
Book Review: Team America: Patton, Macarthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, And The World They Forged, Wylie W. Johnson
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Author: Robert L. O’Connell
Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Wylie W. Johnson, US Army War College class of 2010
Although early twentieth-century America’s Army was small, meagerly funded, short on equipment, and rife with other struggles, it saw the rise of great leaders. Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged focuses on four of them. They came from different backgrounds, yet “Together they accounted for 19 stars; together they brought about victory in their generation. Two became Chief of Staff of the Army. One rose to become the US Commander in Chief.”
Book Review: Managing Sex In The U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, And Behavior, Mary Raum
Book Review: Managing Sex In The U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, And Behavior, Mary Raum
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Editors: Beth Bailey, Alesha E. Doan, Shannon Portillo, and Karen Dixon Vuic
Reviewed by Dr. Mary Raum, professor of national security affairs, US Naval War College
This compilation of scholarly, practical, and historical writings presents a running record of events gleaned from research on government policies from the eras of World War II, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, and the War in Afghanistan. It provides greater insight into the complexities of gender issues with direct ties to defense systems. While service examples and dialogues are primarily aimed at the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps are also included. Historical …
Book Review: The Weaponisation Of Everything: A Field Guide To The New Way Of War, Robert J. Bunker
Book Review: The Weaponisation Of Everything: A Field Guide To The New Way Of War, Robert J. Bunker
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Author: Mark Galeottii
Reviewed by Dr. Robert J. Bunker, director of research and analysis, managing partner, C/O Futures LLC
In this field guide, Galeotti departs from his customary focus on Russia and covers a broad area of new ways—or emerging twenty-first-century means—of warfare. His expertise and penchant for illustrative and entertaining vignettes allows him to inject informed insights into his work and syncretize military historical and contemporary examples pulled from time and space.
Book Review: The Age Of Ai And Our Human Future, Russell W. Glenn
Book Review: The Age Of Ai And Our Human Future, Russell W. Glenn
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Authors: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher
Reviewed by Dr. Russell W. Glenn, principal, Innovative Defense Research LLC
Notable for its authoritative arguments and analysis of the nature and potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI), this short, effective primer complements many longer treatments and journal articles on the subject. Readers well-versed in AI will find little new here, but the book’s national security implications merit consideration. Primary themes include the transformative character and criticality of establishing international agreements regarding the application of AI. The authors remind readers of humanity’s control of AI development and the contingent responsibility to …
Book Review: Military Virtues, George J. Fust
Book Review: Military Virtues, George J. Fust
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Editors: Michael Skerker, David Whetham, and Don Carrick
Reviewed by Major George J. Fust, active-duty US Army officer
Filling the gap between theoretical and practical application, this collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners revitalizes the application of virtue to the modern military environment and answers the question, “Why did the service component choose this value?” Case studies and vignettes in each chapter reinforce main arguments and drive further reflection. After reading this book, readers will not have to accept military-prescribed virtues at face value; they will have obtained an understanding and a moral map for dealing with ethical …
Book Review: War In The Villages: The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons In The Vietnam War, William Thomas Allison
Book Review: War In The Villages: The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons In The Vietnam War, William Thomas Allison
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Author: Ted N. Easterling
Reviewed by Dr. William Thomas Allison, professor of history, Georgia Southern University
Published on April 20, 2023. Former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Ted Easterling evaluates the Marine Combined Action Platoons and their effectiveness, calling them an “appropriate counterinsurgency method” whose potential was squandered during the Vietnam War.
Book Review: Determined To Persist: General Earle Wheeler, The Joint Chiefs Of Staff, And The Military’S Foiled Pursuit Of Victory In Vietnam, Gregory L. Cantwell
Book Review: Determined To Persist: General Earle Wheeler, The Joint Chiefs Of Staff, And The Military’S Foiled Pursuit Of Victory In Vietnam, Gregory L. Cantwell
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Author: Mark A. Viney
Reviewed by Dr. Gregory L. Cantwell, professor, Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College
Published on April 20, 2023. How did the leadership dynamics of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), the president, and others during the height of the Vietnam War play out? Determined to Persist analyzes General Earle G. Wheeler and others and offers what the reviewer calls a fresh perspective on the topic.
Book Review: Clear, Hold, And Destroy: Pacification In Phú Yên And The American War In Vietnam, Samantha A. Taylor
Book Review: Clear, Hold, And Destroy: Pacification In Phú Yên And The American War In Vietnam, Samantha A. Taylor
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Author: Robert J. Thompson III
Reviewed by Dr. Samantha A. Taylor, assistant professor of military and security studies, Air Command and Staff College
Published on April 20, 2023. There is no shortage of books that explore the Vietnam War and why it ended the way it did. This book does not focus on strategy or events but on the middle-level US and South Vietnamese pacification policy in the Phú Yên province and the communist strategy to counter it.
Book Review: Useful Captives: The Role Of Pows In American Military Conflicts, Michael E. Lynch
Book Review: Useful Captives: The Role Of Pows In American Military Conflicts, Michael E. Lynch
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Editors: Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote
Reviewed by Dr. Michael E. Lynch, senior historian, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
Published on April 7, 2023. A book of useful and thought-provoking essays, Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military History explores 300 years of wars and the role POWs have played in them. Reviewer Dr. Michael Lynch walks readers through more than half of the groups featured in the book.
Book Review: Old & New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, And War, Robert J. Bunker
Book Review: Old & New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, And War, Robert J. Bunker
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Authors: Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha
Reviewed by Dr. Robert J. Bunker, director of research and analysis and managing partner, C/O Futures, LLC
Published on April 7, 2023. In Old & New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War, Drs. Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha, examine the nature of battlespace and how one can make sense of it across space, through well-known and emergent domains, and along the various levels of war, asking where one should look, how one should look, and for what one should look. Reviewer Dr. Robert J. Bunker shows how the book executes well in its modernist …