I'm all giddy! Now all I have to do is finish it. Particularly since my wife is buying Christmas presents with the advance money as we speak (or as we type).
Colin Gray Just Agreed to the Write the Foreword For My Book
I'm all giddy! Now all I have to do is finish it. Particularly since my wife is buying Christmas presents with the advance money as we speak (or as we type).
Can we do the Oprah thing and have a council book club?
Originally Posted by SteveMetz
As long as I don't have to give you all a car. Or hug you.
We were doing a book of the month but stalled at John Robbs book. I think Dr. Metz book would be a good additon.
Sam Liles
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Oh Boy! Free Books!
I agree with selil. Would this mean that Steve now has to give us all free books?
Do we need to discuss Steve's book? He's already told us everything that's in it.
LOL! Good point.Do we need to discuss Steve's book? He's already told us everything that's in it.
I can't wait for the end. My writing is like something I heard a crusty old admiral say at the beginning of a presentation: "I speak without notes so I'm as anxious to hear what I'm going to say as you are."
What a great idea
Tough crowd here...
... congrats on getting Colin Gray to write the intro and getting so close CINC HOME is spending the advance. Can't wait to read it.
Epilogue For My Book
Revised version of a ditty that appeared in Military Review.
Baghdad April
Who would have thought even minutes ago
Blackhawk swept from the taupe
Medieval California Kuwait to the quivering sandust of Talil.
Sweat, Al-Hilah, Marine bird, older than damp crew, machine
Smell, vibration ammo cammo scraped paint web belts, still
Tighten gray roar
Chaos, nose down, brown. Just get us there.
Now green. For ten thousand lives this river ran brown with blood
Helping reeds limber bodies once passed as blind. Just get us there.
Down, then there
BIAP, uncrumbled hull
Spurts and unthinking tremors, the shakti of nonduality,
Bills unpaid as new planes kneel lame,
Crying tarmac, shattered dust.
Fade, then the comic book cantos: a prince of
Babylon, sword of Assyria, builder of Ur, heavens perturbed,
Trauma hung close in broken glass
Facade (yet more)
Meaning deep to those who looted that brief cosmic day
Missed by those who watched.
Stories, reprise, thunder run
Endless dust nights of expendable men
blind (they must have been)
To spin a rusty truck against a tank
With only, what? passion? hate?
fear?
Perhaps no thought at all
Except to hope the engine would start (or not)
and someone else would see.
No matter. They are now mist, counters in a game.
Destroy and build, Shiva in web gear
While somewhere a bridge is lost. But what?
Who is destroyer, who a builder? We know
Often great power owns only dust.
Still there is BIAP
Flight out
Home, strong shoulders
Hiphop, fading you.
And then
A tiny point of blood receding on the glass.
May 2003
Last edited by SteveMetz; 12-18-2007 at 02:05 PM.
Finished!!!
Just shipped that bad boy off to my editor. Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty I'm free at last!
Let me be the first to say congratulations!
Going to enjoy some time off?
Ha! Ha I say! I currently owe a chapter on the changing nature of war to a compilation the Norwegian air force is doing; a paper for a South African army; and a paper on "high value targeting" (AKA assassinating bad guys) for the RAND Insurgency Board. Plus I'm leading a CSA tasked project on OIF strategy decisionmaking. I'll rest when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Macanudo.
ahh yes, but they'll want the script for the movie now
Congratulations on getting it done, Steve! Now if I could just finish this $%&^ ten page paper...
Congrats! Thanks for posting the two excerpts.
I'm looking forward to buying three copies, myself and two of the kids...
I'm hoping that we can get Janeane Garofalo to play Bill Kristol in the movie. I'm a *great* fan of irony.ahh yes, but they'll want the script for the movie now
Congratulations on getting it done, Steve! Now if I could just finish this $%&^ ten page paper...
Very impressive, Steve. I read both the Preface and the Conclusion, and while you covered a lot of ground, it wasn't clear to me whether you addressed the rise of Islamic extremism as an aftermath of our invasion of Iraq. It seems to me that even after Iraq stabilizes, the Long War will continue against Jihadists whose numbers and resolve have both increased since 2003, thanks to U.S. actions in the ME. Shouldn't that be a factor in the evolution of American Strategy?Just shipped that bad boy off to my editor. Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty I'm free at last!
Also, is there a word missing in your final sentence of the Conclusions section?
The full effect of this long struggle will not become clear confronts its next, as yet unidentified security challenge and the power or weakness of the Iraq paradigm is put to the test.
Congratulations!
Steve M,
Looks interesting, can I get this on Amazon? Looking forward to the read and footnotes.
Steve L.
Congrats !
Steve,
What a great way to start the New Year...Congratulations !
Won't be till next fall. There's a long way to go.
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