The War Diary of Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes   by Geoffrey Keyes, edited by James W. Holsinger Jr University Press of Kentucky , Lexington, 2024,  459 pp Hardcover ISBN: 9780813198712 Reviewed By: Chris Roberts   Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes, a 1913 graduate of the United States Military Academy, saw active service in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations during the Second World War, and later served in occupied Germany and occupied Austria. During the North African Campaign, from November …

The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor by Paul Dickson   Grove Atlantic, 2020, 416 pp Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8021-5869-7 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8021-4767-7 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-8021-4768-4 Reviewed by: McLeod Wood  Paul Dickson has been a freelance writer since 1968 and has written historical works on American interwar slang ( War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases Since the Civil War ) and the Cold War ( Sputnik: The Shock of the Century ), to list a few. His …

The Transformative Effects of Military Intervention on Grand Strategy   by Rebecca Lissner Oxford University Press, 2021, 240 pp Paperback ISBN: 0197583199 Reviewed By : William Westerman   According to US political scientist Barry Posen, a state’s grand strategy is its theory of how it will achieve security and stability for itself in both times of peace and times of war. [1] Once established, grand strategies usually change in two ways: when they are completely overhauled in response to shifts in the …

A Retrospective on the Coastal and Riverine Conflict in Vietnam   Editors: Thomas J. Cutler and Edward J. Marolda Naval Institute Press , 2023, 262 pp Hardcover ISBN: 9781557507839 Reviewed by Blair Tidey   The subject of this book is historically the most recent large-scale example of coastal and riverine warfare. Significantly, it covers a geographic region in which the Australian Army is most likely to use these capabilities, in cooperation, competition and conflict. While the specific historic context …

It has become somewhat par for the course, in any discussion of professional reading in a military context, to quote United States Marine Corps General James Mattis (retired). Mattis commands much respect, both within the US military and in the Australian Army. He is often viewed as the modern-day soldier-scholar par excellence . His books frequently appear on Professional Military Education (PME) Reading Lists, and his quotes on the importance on military literacy are often thrown about. This is because …