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Title: The Principles of War for the Information Age by Robert Leonhard ISBN: 0-89141-713-3 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 26 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The author rates 5 stars as an antagonist, the book 3 stars.
Comment: "The Principles of War For the Information Age" is an ambitious book seeking to not only redefine but replace the traditional MOOSEMUSS (maneuver, objective, offensive, surprise, economy of force, mass, unity of command, simplicity, and security) principles of war. The book consists mainly of the author's thoughts with only a few weak historical examples given as evidence. The book does not provide a compelling case for change, but serves well as a thought-provoking essay. One finds enough material to keep the readers' interest to complete the book with an occasional nugget of gold. One has to admire the author's courage in writing the book as an active duty officer. The Army should assign the author to a prestigious military research center or college.
Rating: 4
Summary: Unique perspective
Comment: What really impresed me about this book was Leonhard's application of physics terms to modern warfare. Using quantities like "velocity", "momentum" and "mass", he distills modern warfare to its most basic components, and by so doing, offers the foundation for the proper application of maneuver doctrine in 21st century arms.
While perhaps not as engaging as "The Art of Maneuver", "The Principles of War for the Information Age" is another significant contribution to military theory by an outstanding author.
Rating: 2
Summary: A bit of a disappointment
Comment: There are some tidbits of wisdom in the soup offered up by Leonhard. Following his excellent The Art of Maneuver, and Fighting by Minutes, Principles begins as a much needed critique of the classical principles of war. He shows with great gusto that many are mutually contradicting, like mass, security, and maneuver. You can't hide a large force, or make it move very quickly. Nor can you hide a moving force.
I suppose Leonhard hoped that his new principles of war would take off, and generate whole new doctrines and policy for the "information age." His Three Laws of War are an excellent step forward in anthropology and psychology, but whether they will be much use on the battlefield or policy centers is unclear.
Rather than scrap aging principles for a new way of thinking, as I had hoped, Leonhard appends several new "principles" to his three laws. Having read his other books with much enjoyment, I was shocked to see him actually state that the quintissential fog of war would be lifted in the information age, especially after the derision he heaped on just that idea in The Art of Maneuver.
Frankly, I would recommend this book to anyone who blindly subscribes to the touted "Principles of War," if only to see more innovative thinking. The latter part of the book, on the "new" principles of war remain to be demonstrated in reality.
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Title: The Art of Maneuver : Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle by Robert Leonhard ISBN: 0891415327 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Special Studies in Military Affairs) by William S. Lind ISBN: 086531862X Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: July, 1985 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: Fighting by Minutes by Robert R. Leonhard ISBN: 027594736X Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 30 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $96.95 |
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Title: Phantom Soldier: The Enemy's Answer to U.S. Firepower by H. John Poole, William S. Lind ISBN: 0963869558 Publisher: Posterity Pr Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Strategy by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, B. H. Liddell Hart, Basil H. Liddell-Hart ISBN: 0452010713 Publisher: Meridian Books Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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