Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
Concur. It's orld Class fiction. It's excellent. My other favourite in this vein is Rogue Male.


Sorry, but IMO, this book is garbage. He gets it all wrong. He doesn't seem to understand the dissonance between "Deep Battle" theory and actual practice. Big ideas, with little else to support them. All the big ideas fall over when faced with actual operational conditions.
Naveh also plays very fast and loose with the historical record.
Read Nikolas Zetterling rebuttal of Naveh if you can find it. I have a copy, if you PM me your e-mail.
Glad it is not just me that is finding it somewhat verbose! Looks like I could do with the Zetterling rebuttal as well.

Also on the reading list at the moment:

  • Gretchen Peters - Seeds of Terror A look at the heroin/Taliban nexus
  • History of European Morals by William Lecky - something I should have probably read as an undergraduate...
  • 41 Years in India by Field Marshal Roberts

and

  • The Big katie Morag Storybook by Mairi Hedderwick - at the behest of my 4 year old daughter who has her priorities very clear and generally sets mine!