Prodigal Soldiers

Prodigal Soldiers

Author: James Kitfield

Publisher: Potomac Books Incorporated

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9781574881233

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In Prodigal Soldiers, James Kitfield chronicles that remarkable revitalization of the military by following the lives of a unique generation of officers.


Prodigal Soldiers

Prodigal Soldiers

Author: James Kitfield

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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In Prodigal Soldiers, James Kitfield chronicles that remarkable revitalization of the military by following the lives of a unique generation of officers.


Soldiers and Civilians

Soldiers and Civilians

Author: Peter Feaver

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780262561426

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Essays on the emerging military-civilian divide in the United States.


Lessons Unlearned

Lessons Unlearned

Author: Pat Proctor

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2020-03-09

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 0826274374

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Colonel Pat Proctor’s long overdue critique of the Army’s preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era focuses on a national security issue that continues to vex in the twenty-first century: Has the Army lost its ability to win strategically by focusing on fighting conventional battles against peer enemies? Or can it adapt to deal with the greater complexity of counterinsurgent and information-age warfare? In this blunt critique of the senior leadership of the U.S. Army, Proctor contends that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Army stubbornly refused to reshape itself in response to the new strategic reality, a decision that saw it struggle through one low-intensity conflict after another—some inconclusive, some tragic—in the 1980s and 1990s, and leaving it largely unprepared when it found itself engaged—seemingly forever—in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The first book-length study to connect the failures of these wars to America’s disastrous performance in the war on terror, Proctor’s work serves as an attempt to convince Army leaders to avoid repeating the same mistakes.


Twilight Warriors

Twilight Warriors

Author: James Kitfield

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0465096549

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A dramatic portrait of the innovative Special Forces commanders and FBI agents who wage war against America's hidden enemies With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to end. Yet we remain at war against expanding terrorist movements, and our security forces have had to continually adapt to a nihilistic foe that operates in the shadows. The result of fifteen years of reporting, Twilight Warriors is the untold story of the tight-knit brotherhood that changed the way America fights. James Kitfield reveals how brilliant innovators in the US military, Special Forces, and the intelligence and law enforcement communities forged close operational bonds in the crucibles of Iraq and Afghanistan, breaking down institutional barriers to create a relentless, intelligence-driven style of operations. At the forefront of this profound shift were Stanley McChrystal and his interagency team at Joint Special Operations Command, the pioneers behind a hybrid method of warfighting: find, fix, finish, exploit, and analyze. Other key figures include Michael Flynn, the visionary who redefined the intelligence gathering mission; the FBI's Brian McCauley, who used serial-killer profilers to track suicide bombers in Afghanistan; and the Delta Force commander Scott Miller, responsible for making team players out of the US military's most elite and secretive counterterrorism units. The result of their collaborations is a globe-spanning network that is elegant in its simplicity and terrifying in its lethality. As Kitfield argues, this style of operations represents our best hope for defending the nation in an age of asymmetric warfare. Twilight Warriors is an unprecedented account of the American way of war-and the iconoclasts who have brought it into the twenty-first century.


The Soldiers of the French Revolution

The Soldiers of the French Revolution

Author: Alan I. Forrest

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780822309352

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In this work Alan Forrest brings together some of the recent research on the Revolutionary army that has been undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic by younger historians, many of whom look to the influential work of Braudel for a model. Forrest places the armies of the Revolution in a broader social and political context by presenting the effects of war and militarization on French society and government in the Revolutionary period. Revolutionary idealists thought of the French soldier as a willing volunteer sacrificing himself for the principles of the Revolution; Forrest examines the convergence of these ideals with the ordinary, and often dreadful, experience of protracted warfare that the soldier endured.


US Intervention Policy and Army Innovation

US Intervention Policy and Army Innovation

Author: Richard Lock-Pullan

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780714657196

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This book examines how the US Army rebuilt itself after the Vietnam War and how this has effected US intervention policy after the Cold War.


The Generals

The Generals

Author: Thomas E. Ricks

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0143124099

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A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell. While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.