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Reply With Quotesounds like a good read Shek. I look forward to the perspectives of WAB's learned readership.
My guess is that many of you will find this upcoming book interesting, and so I'm posting the link so you can pre-order it. I haven't read it, but I liked Greg Jaffe's work in the WSJ as their senior military correspondent, and so I'm sure this will be just as good.
Amazon.com: The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army (9780307409065): Greg Jaffe, David Cloud: Books
"So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3
sounds like a good read Shek. I look forward to the perspectives of WAB's learned readership.
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I just finished reading the book and found it to be an enjoyable read. Not as detailed as I would have liked - not sure if that was an editorial choice or just a matter of getting the book out more quickly while it still had some currency. It's interesting to see how each of the generals crossed each others' paths as they ascended through the ranks.
"So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3
shek,
when i saw the thread title-- first thought that went through my mind was that boy, you sure got promoted right quick
The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!"
-Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
I thought he had gotten another gold star on his forhead in school!Originally Posted by astralis
shek,
when i saw the thread title-- first thought that went through my mind was that boy, you sure got promoted right quick
Kind of related to this, have you ever read Rick Atkinson's In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat? I enjoyed it immensely.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is to know to not use it in a fruit salad.
I read it in Mosul back in 2004, but I don't remember specifically from it. I like his work and still need to read the second volume in his WWII trilogy. I think the last volume is due out next summer.
"So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3
Gee, I wonder why you don't recall it from reading it while in Mosul, Mr Stryker Rifle Company Commander with Nothing Else on Your mind!
And I was hoping his third would be out by Christmas...rats!
His second was better than his first, IMHO.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is to know to not use it in a fruit salad.
I enjoyed the heck out of that book AR,now I need to look for the other ones.
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories." Thomas Jefferson
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