Finally getting to reading it; not too bad, took me 30 years to actually get around to reading it

Great book, one passage in particular just leaps out; when COL Caldwell describes precisely what is wrong with "The American Way of War" from around pp. 218 to pp. 221 in the hard-bound version.

"We stubbornly, sublimely refuse to see man as he is, Sam-we're so damned certain about how he OUGHT to be."

Much more, there. There appears to be a "truth" every 10 pages or so.