As my big debut event in DC looms, a pattern emerges in reviews of the book

There's
a mega-event for my book Thursday night in DC. It is free, but to attend you
should to register here. There
will be a surprise guest.

Meanwhile,
more reviews of the book are pouring in. On the one side stand the unhappy
generals. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales doesn't like it -- he calls it
unfair. He tells me he thinks in his review in Foreign Affairs that he is defending the
Army. Me, I think that he is defending today's Army generals. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Perry Smith also
posted a querulous review on Amazon.

Meanwhile,
the best of our military historians are greeting the book positively. Here is a good
review in Military
History magazine by one of the grand old men of the field, Dennis
Showalter. That comes on top of similar praise from three other big names in
the field -- Carlo D'Este, Hew Strachan and Brian
Linn.

See
a pattern here -- generals vs. historians?