http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/ en http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/blog/the-generals-readable-but-flawed <span>The Generals... Readable but Flawed?</span> <div class="field field--name-field-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> Gian Gentile provides an <a href="http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/generals-american-military-command-world-war-ii-today">intelligent dissection of Tom Ricks' <em>The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today</em> at the </a><em><a href="http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/generals-american-military-command-world-war-ii-today">New York Journal of Books</a>, </em>deeming it "highly readable but flawed."</p> <blockquote> <p> Tom Ricks’s new book <em>The Generals</em> regresses from Keegan and takes us back to a less complicated form of military storytelling in which wars’ outcomes were determined solely by the performance of army commanders.</p> <p> The main argument to the book is simple: Relieve American army generals in war for poor performance and victory will be more attainable.</p> </blockquote> <p> Read it <a href="http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/generals-american-military-command-world-war-ii-today">here</a>.</p> </div> <span><span>Peter J. Munson</span></span> <span>Fri, 11/30/2012 - 5:19pm</span> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/blog/the-generals-readable-but-flawed" rel="tag" title="The Generals... Readable but Flawed?" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Generals... Readable but Flawed?</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/index.php/blog/the-generals-readable-but-flawed#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">18 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/index.php/taxonomy/term/241/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1356188679" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:19:46 +0000 Peter J. Munson 13576 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com