In the meantime, be sure to check out the debate on the civil-military relationship at Joint Forces Quarterly, Small Wars Journal, Themistocles' Shade, and the Wall Street Journal. You might also want to take a look at Elisabeth Bumiller's latest article on Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan.
(I can just see the Great Satan's Girlfriend writing about FETs in a blog post entitled "Grrrl Power". What says you, GSGF?)
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What are you reading re: Falklands? I read Sandy Woodward's memoir on it but not much else. I learned quite a few things from it but the one major point of horror had to be how they learned that polyester is not a good material for uniforms when there are ship fires...
It's called "Battle for the Falklands" by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins. (it's linked to in the post)
Only a few pages into it so far, so it's hard to judge.
Watcha reading for the American Revolution?
Kelly
Piers Macksey's "The War for America" (also a link to it in the post). Tom Ricks recommended it a while back, claiming it's an excellent book on grand strategy, written from the British point of view.
It does a good job of examining the difficulty in countering an insurgency overseas, while also balancing against more pressing threats from nation-states.
I have leafed through that for my class seems very interesting. Have you looked at TH Breen American Insurgents American Patriots? http://www.amazon.com/American-Insurgents-Patriots-Revolution-People/dp/0809075881 A excellent book on the grass roots of the American Revolution.
Starbuck, that's the book on the Falklands they gave us at USNA back in '88. I've gone back to it many times to explain to people why airborne early warning aircraft are important and to explain why invincible navies aren't invincible.
Oh Snap!
http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2009/08/grrl-power.html
"To Rule The Waves" by Arthur Herman has a great chapter on the Falklands too
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