Wanna see what the fuss about my book is about? Check out C-Span tomorrow AM

Here
is your
big chance: Skip the Saturday morning cartoons and
instead watch a
discussion of the book on Dec. 15 at 8 am. Or, if you can't
wait, they very nicely give you the option to watch it on your computer right
now.

Armed Forces Journal also ran a
thoughtful review by Joseph Collins. The heart of the matter:

Ricks' book is an
important study on command and accountability in wartime. It is also a précis
of much of American military history over the past 70 years. It will make many
officers uncomfortable and some generals squirm. Its arguments can
be disputed; they cannot be ignored.

Accountability
is critical; we must do better. . . . As senior officers go to school to study
military history and modern generalship, they would be well advised to read
this important book. Ricks will make them uncomfortable. They will curse his
excellent pen, his often irreverent tone and his biting commentary. But Ricks
has something to teach the next generation of general officers, if they will
let him.

Tom
again: The New Yorker also had an article
by Dexter
Filkins that was kind of an obituary for the military
career of General Petreaus and also got into discussing my book a bit.

Still
can't get enough? OK. Here's the transcript of my recent discussion
with Neal Conan on Talk of the Nation.

Meanwhile, let me know if
the comments system is still messing you around. I will forward to the powers
that be. Apparently it is in their contracts to screw up the comments system
every few months.