by J.ScottShipman | Sep 4, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command, by Jon Tetsuro Sumida As of August 2012 this is the best non-fiction book I’ve read this year. Professor Sumida brings a potentially dry topic to life making Alfred Thayer Mahan relevant in the...
by J.ScottShipman | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] Since the original post of “No one is really listening, they are just pretending,” there are indications that pretending may actually be doing institutional harm. The US Naval Institue recently sponsored the Joint Warfighting...
by J.ScottShipman | Aug 24, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] The First Battle, Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam, by Otto J. Lehrack, Lt.Col., USMC, Ret. This is an older book, but important. A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a good friend, Bruce. Bruce is a Vietnam...
by J.ScottShipman | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] The Twilight War, The Secret History of America’s Thirty-year Conflict with Iran, by David Crist When President Obama made a heartfelt opening, a smug Iranian leadership viewed it as a ruse or the gesture of a weak leader. Iran spurned him....
