The Straw Giant: Triumph and Failure, America's Armed Forces

by Arthur T. Hadley

Analyzes the American military's successes and failures from the period just before World War II through the Vietnam and Korean Wars and the failed Iran hostage rescue mission

Genres: Military Fiction, History, Nonfiction

331 pages, Hardcover

First published May 12, 1986

About the author

Arthur Twining Hadley II

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this critique of the military from the perspective of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The author really knew his subject -- the US military and its growing bureaucracy. A bit dated now, but it was a useful model in my own writing.