| Death Ground: Today's American Infantry in Battle Contributor(s): Bolger, Daniel P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 089141830X ISBN-13: 9780891418306 Publisher: Presidio Press OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: "An informative and thought-provoking history of recent infantry operations with reasoned glimpses of its possible future." -DR. SHAWN WHETSTONE "Military Heritage "This is [Colonel Bolger's] most significant work to date, important both for students of the contemporary U.S. Army and for general readers- even those normally uninterested in military affairs. Bolger documents the infantry's change over the past sixty years from a mass force of citizen soldiers to a small body of elite professionals. He presents each currently existing type of infantry-paratroopers, air assault, mechanized, light, rangers, and marines. . . . In each case study, Bolger emphasizes the quality and preparation, making it quite clear that will without skill and motivation without competence are certain routes to disaster. . . . While praising today's infantry as the best the country has ever fielded, Bolger raises the prospect that the U.S. military, by emphasizing technology and economy, will leave the country with an elite infantry too small to sustain heavy losses and too specialized to be quickly replaced." -"Publishers Weekly DEATH GROUND Today's American Infantry in Battle |
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| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Military Science - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 356.109 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.24" W x 6.88" (0.46 lbs) 432 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "An informative and thought-provoking history of recent infantry operations with reasoned glimpses of its possible future." -DR. SHAWN WHETSTONE Military Heritage "This is Colonel Bolger's] most significant work to date, important both for students of the contemporary U.S. Army and for general readers- even those normally uninterested in military affairs. Bolger documents the infantry's change over the past sixty years from a mass force of citizen soldiers to a small body of elite professionals. He presents each currently existing type of infantry-paratroopers, air assault, mechanized, light, rangers, and marines. . . . In each case study, Bolger emphasizes the quality and preparation, making it quite clear that will without skill and motivation without competence are certain routes to disaster. . . . While praising today's infantry as the best the country has ever fielded, Bolger raises the prospect that the U.S. military, by emphasizing technology and economy, will leave the country with an elite infantry too small to sustain heavy losses and too specialized to be quickly replaced." -Publishers Weekly DEATH GROUND Today's American Infantry in Battle |