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Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege retired from active duty in December 1993 as the Assistant Division Commander (Maneuver) of the 1st Infantry Division. He was one of the principal developers of the Army’s AirLand Battle concept and the founder and first Director of the School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He has served as a consultant for the US Army Training and Doctrine Command advanced warfighting experiments, and as an advisor on future joint operating concepts for the …
The author is a retired Infantry officer from the Indian Army and is now a permanent resident of Melbourne. Commissioned in December 1965, he is an alumnus of the Indian National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College and the College of Defence Management. During his long career, he has the distinction of having commanded two infantry battalions, an armored brigade, an infantry division and a special counter-insurgency force in the Kashmir Valley. He has been a member of the Directing Staff/Head …
Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, is the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, which was published in this country last year by Scribe. Professor Pape has also published Bombing to Win: Airpower and Coercion in War, and his articles include ‘Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work’ and ‘The Determinants of International Morale Action'. … Robert …
Major General Mike Hindmarsh graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps in 1978. Major General Hindmarsh saw regimental service as a Platoon Commander with 2/4 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and as a Troop Commander, Squadron Commander and Commanding Officer with SASR. As CO SASR, Major General Hindmarsh commanded the ANZAC Special Operations Force detachment to OPERATION POLLARD in Kuwait in 1998. More recently, he commanded the Special …
Running the War in Iraq: An Australian general, 300,000 troops, the bloodiest conflict of our time Written by: Jim Molan, HarperCollins Publishers, Sydney, 2008, ISBN: 9780732287818, 358 pp. Reviewed by: Albert Palazzo Major General Jim Molan has written a compelling, riveting, and fast paced memoir of his year in Iraq as a senior officer with the Headquarters Multi-National Force – Iraq. Molan’s primary position was Chief of Operations to the US Commander, General George G Casey, although he also played …
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War Written by: Peter Barham, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2004, ISBN: 9780300125115, 451 pp. Reviewed by: John McCarthy Peter Barham is a psychologist and a historian of mental health. Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War is a very successful attempt to rediscover the largely forgotten men who were certified as lunatics as a result of their 1914–18 war experiences. Wilfred Owen, killed in action on 4 November 1918 and awarded a posthumous Military Cross, noted such …
Robert E Lee: Icon for a Nation Written by: Brian Holden Reid, pbk, Prometheus Books, 2007, ISBN: 9781591025856, 271 pp. Reviewed by: Scott Hopkins Any study of General Robert E Lee confronts the interplay of myth and historiography. Lee, a Southern hero of the US Civil War, was almost deified in the ‘Lost Cause’ revisionist process in the second half of the nineteenth century. Interest in the Civil War has not faded, demonstrated by the crowded summer tourist trail around Virginia and Pennsylvania. Nor …
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality Written by: Wolfam Wette, Translated by: Deborah Schneider, Preface by: Peter Fritzsche, Forward byManfred Messerschmitt, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2006, ISBN: 9780674025776, 391 pp. Reviewed by: Russell A Hart Originally published in German in 2002, the appearance of an English translation of this important book is overdue. Wolfram Wette exposes the deeply racist and anti-Semitic character of the modern German military that conditioned it to embrace …
Firearms: The Life Story of a Technology Written by: Roger Pauly, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008, ISBN: 9780801888366, 180 pp. Reviewed by: Antony Trentini Firearms are obviously central to the Army—and are critical to the business of the Infantry and Special Forces. Roger Pauly’s book is an excellent introduction for those interested in better understanding the firearms used by the warriors of yesterday and today. This book examines the history of firearms, and their development …
