This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness

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by T.R. Fehrenbach

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Does anyone else think the author crossed the line between historian and sermonizer? I found his point-of-view soliloquies very annoying throughout this book.
Ralph I suppose that if you like your history dry, this book does not meet the test for a purely historical text. However, Feherenback makes it abundantly c…moreI suppose that if you like your history dry, this book does not meet the test for a purely historical text. However, Feherenback makes it abundantly clear that history is not written in text books. It is written in blood and gore and suffering. His book gives a very human viewpoint of what it was like to be there rather than being a detached observer.

Yes, he does repeat his personal views several times and does it, I think, quite eloquently. I found it thought provoking rather than irritating. He places his sermons where they do the most good. I think they might be easily brushed off if they had been presented only once.

I was a Vietnam protester and I think that we've made mistakes in the way we have used our military power since then. Yet, in the end, I have to agree with Fehrenback that we do need a well trained, well equipped military to survive in this world. Treating our military as an unwanted stepchild will not work. Had he not repeated his views several times, I might not have taken them to heart.

I was glad to see that he also repeatedly made the point that the military should be firmly under the control of the civilian government. Military rulers have an abominable track record!(less)
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