I usually do not wax poetic about public figures, especially those in politics. I try to remain objective which more often than not means that I am harsher in my judgments of things or people I like. I love Robert Gates and go out of my way to work with and for him. Knowing this, I read A Passion for Leadership trying hard to be objective about it. Even given my aforementioned predisposition towards such scenarios, I loved this book. I find Gates to be […]
A Finale and two novellas
I really love the Iron Druid Chronicles and Scourged is a great finale. I’m hard pressed to think of many other series wherein we see so much growth in the main character. I find this especially true given the series is 9 books long plus several novellas and a collection of short stories. It seems as though it would be very easy to become formulaic and keep the main character exactly the same but Kevin Hearne does not do […]
This is how you end a trilogy!
I had a journey with this book. It first became available in October but I had several other books checked out, so I returned it and put it on hold again. I got it again in December right before a vacation, which in years past was great timing, but with two children, both under three at the time, vacations are no longer the time to get some reading accomplished. After this vacation, I had to return home earlier than the rest of my family and […]
Army Chief of Staff Reading List #11
The Sleepwalkers is one of the most thorough books I have recently read. It attempts to describe and make sense of the factors that led to WWI. The author attempts to discover the real causes beyond the notion that the war was inevitable. It’s a nearly impossible task that I think Christopher Clark does quite well. His findings do not provide a clear or simple answer but it is comprehensive and much better than the tired tropes we learned about in high school history class. […]
Army Chief of Staff Reading List #10
“America will remain the world’s only superpower for the foreseeable future. But what sort of superpower should it be? What role should America play in the world? What role do you want America to play?” Ian Bremmer is political scientist, perhaps best known for the “J-Curve.” The “J-Curve” describes the relationship between a country’s openness and it’s stability. In Superpower, Bremmer outlines three possibilities for the future of America and asks the readers to make up their own minds as to where they stand. He […]
Army Chief of Staff Reading List #9
The Future of Power was written by the man who coined the term “soft power” in the 1980s and is an expert on foreign affairs. Joseph S. Nye Jr. first gained acclaim when he founded, with Robert Keohane, the idea of neoliberalism, as it relates to international relations. It is one of the two major approaches, with neorealism, that govern the field. Borrowing from the wikipedia entry, neoliberalism is “a school of thought which believes that states are, or at least should be, concerned first […]
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