The Pentagon and the Art of War: The Question of Military Reform

by Edward N. Luttwak

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Genres: Politics, Military Fiction, War, Military History, History

333 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Edward Nicolae Luttwak is a military strategist, political scientist and historian who has published works on military strategy, history, and international relations. Born in Arad, Romania, he studied in Palermo, Sicily, in England, LSE (BSc) & at Johns Hopkins (PhD). He speaks five languages. He serves or has served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force; he is/has been an adviser to Treaty Allies of the United States. He is chairman of the board of Aircraft Purchase Fleet Limited (APFL), an aviation lessor, and he founded and directs a conservation cattle ranch in the Bolivian Amazon. He is the author of various
books and more articles including: The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy, Coup d'Etat: a practical handbook, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, The Endangered American Dream, and Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy. His books are also published in: Arabic, Chinese (both Beijing simplified and Taipei traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian (Bahasa), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (and Brazilian Portuguese) Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Castilian, Spain, in Argentina and in Venezuela), Swedish, and Turkish. Before ever writing of strategy and war, he was combat-trained (Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) and fought as a volunteer or a contractor in several countries on two continents. He likes Hebrew songs and the Greek & Latin classics. His best article is "Homer Inc." in the London Review of Books.

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Foreign Affairs

Edward Luttwak has a strong claim on being the most provocative military analyst of our times; this book will be no disappointment on that score. With verve and style he dissects the American military establishment, finding it top heavy with senior officers, rewarding incompetence, inefficient in its operations and unable to develop a coherent military strategy because of competing military bureaucracies.

Some of the most interesting passages deal with the alleged debacles of U.S. military operations from Vietnam to Beirut to Grenada. The armed forces have failed us, Luttwak argues, and his remedy is a National Defense Staff of officers, not representing individual services, who can steer a "rudderless Pentagon."

One can wonder whether Luttwak would ever be satisfied; nevertheless, this is a stimulating and controversial work.