Strategy Making for Brown Bars: Fodder for Your Professional Reading

摘要

Strategy making for second lieutenants-no doubt readers will wonder if this reviewer has lost it! Lieutenants have everything they can handle, learning how to survive in the T-6 aircraft or how to avoid electrocution in a laboratory or maintenance shop! Yet military history suggests that, in most cases, waiting until one is a general or even a field-grade officer will usually be too late to develop as a strategic planner. Alfred Thaycr Mahan and Carl von Clausewitz both began a lifetime of study at a very young age. Napoleon himself began his study as an artillery lieutenant.