Books/Movies
The close of the last decade and the start of this one witnessed an amazing resurgence of thought in military circles concerning strategy and the operational art. The concept of the "indirect approach" has been reborn in the creation of what the Marine Corps has coined "maneuver warfare" and the
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In Armor Attacks: The Tank Platoon. active-duty U.S. Army tank officer [John F. Antal] has struck upon an extremely clever, curious, and innovative fictional form that is part tactical decision game (TDG), part combat adventure page-turner, and part The Defence of Duffer's Drift. Antal has created
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Though the book purports to champion modern concepts of decentralized command and individual initiative, top-down centralized control and insistence on blind obedience are not so easily expunged.
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There is nothing m Maneuver in War that suggests Marine Corps doctrine or style is as woefully deficient as the maneuverists claim; rather, it shows that maneuver is one of several means to an end, and the attainment of that end is more likely when the commander accommodates the "basic and
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The authors define military reform as an effort to make all our defense policies and practices, from the infantry squad to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Congress, serve the purpose of winning in combat. The authors take great care to explain what the reform movement is not because they
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The final section consists of a series of stimulating tactics lectures delivered to the Amphibious Warfare School (AWS) by Col Michael D. Wyly during the 81-82 academic year. Early in the book [William S. Lind] acknowledges Wyly's help in reviewing manuscript drafts; later in his introduction to
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While Gen Simpkin provides a substantive and useful bibliography, the absence of footnotes is frustrating.
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This is an interesting history of Marine actions and unusual approach to pacification in the Vietnam war. Gen [Lewis Walt]'s position as commanding general of Marine forces in Vietnam from 1965 to mid-1967 makes this a unique account.
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