Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (Hardcover) by Daniel Bolger

from DeaconBernie

Apparently General Bolger ran out of gas after he he constructed the title. It adds nothing but a few stories to collection of data and certainly does not answer the question of the title. I sense a huge amount of pent-up frustration that Bolger wanted to release but drew back from actually sayin...

from jcbrunner

What does it take to be still called a work of non-fiction? This is the military history equivalent of the Creation Museum in Kentucky. The author is creating his own reality of imagined facts - Rommel's Afrika Korps on the Red Sea, denying the preemptive war against Saddam Hussein, warming up th...

from DeaconBernie

"It's all my fault. I thought my men were invincible." So lamented Robert E. Lee after the third day of Gettysburg. For some reason not easily understood by a non-military person, an element of near infallible judgment is imputed to those who wear stars of rank on their uniforms. From the outside...