A BOOK REVIEW WORTH READING
The Adventures of Chester has a wide-ranging and informative review of The Shield of Achilles:War, Peace and the Course of History by Phillip Bobbitt. After seeing the selection of topics raised by Mr. Bobbitt and elucidated by Chester – netwar, market-states, ebay-style command systems, PNM, epochal wars – and the impressive people who are themselves reading Shield of Achilles, this may be the next ” must-read” book alongside Blueprint for Action on military strategy, society and foreign policy.
I think I will pencil Border’s into my weekend schedule.
September 17th, 2005 at 6:59 am
And, of course, alongside “Imperial Grunts!”
September 17th, 2005 at 7:16 am
Hi Curzon
Of course.
Mr. Kaplan is an interesting figure because he gets away with violating the unwritten rules of his profession and his activities are a cultural throwback; he’d have been much appreciated by T.R. and Churchill who did very similar things themselves. A vigorous life as it were.
While Dr. Barnett is correct that Kaplan is no strategist, he’s filling the same void for today that was once occupied by S.L.A. Marshall and Rudyard Kipling in past eras.