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Title: Phantom Soldier: The Enemy's Answer to U.S. Firepower by H. John Poole, William S. Lind ISBN: 0-9638695-5-8 Publisher: Posterity Pr Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: H. John Poole is the best
Comment: This is an analysis of how the eastern way of war trumps the American/western way of war. It also shows why people in Iraq are shooting at US troops rather than hailing them as heros. I've mailed a copy to George Bush. It's too bad that the military culture that he represents is incapable of understanding the importance of this book. The result of this inability is graphically portrayed in John Shey's two classics ACHILLES IN VIET NAM and ODYSSEUS IN AMERICA.
Rating: 5
Summary: Small Unit Sanity Check
Comment: What a fantastic collection of small-unit lessons learned (or ones that should have been learned) from the history of U.S. armed forces military successes and failures for the last 60+ years!
John Poole has "taken the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference." Poole's emphasis on the importance of small unit dominance on the battlefield is definitely less traveled than the mistaken U.S. over-reliance on superior technologies. The convincing discussion and analysis in this book can make all the difference in how the military decides to prepare for the future: tactical parity with our enemies to augment our technological superiority, or technological advances to complement our superior tactical expertise over our enemies.
Poole's thought-provoking book provides insights and answers to some very important questions: When our enemies or the environment neutralize our vast technological advantages, can our small-units still fight and win on the battlefield? How easy is it for our enemies to minimize our technological advantages? What are the differences and similarities between the eastern and western approaches to warfighting? How well has our training prepared our small-units to fight since WWII? Is it an advantage for our enemies to willingly train and fight with little to no reliance on modern technologies? How well do our small-units record and pass on tactical lessons learned as compared to what our adversaries have done? Are there better ways to fight and minimize the costs of war?
Today's changing face and nature of conflict demand an even greater understanding of the different styles and approaches to warfighting. This book challenges our traditional understandings of battlefield prowess and deserves, at a minimum, serious study and discussion.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you want to win - read this book!
Comment: Phantom Soldier is the natural follow-up to John Poole's book "Another Bridge to Cross".
In Phantom Soldier he continuous his effort to explain the right way to fight - this time with more clarity and easy-to-read style. I find the way he mixes the old, and still true, theories of war fighting with real world examples to be most helpful.
Every person slightest interested in learning the ways of war is probably familiar with Sun-Tzu, but in this book the author also introduces us to some of the less know Asian theorists like Sun Bin. For the uninitiated "The Art of War" by Sun-Wu (or Sun-Zi) seams to be the reference work to read, but the truth is that "The Art of War" is only one in the ancient collection "Seven books of war". A less well-known work, the Liu Tao, or Six Strategies for War, was also highly regarded by rulers of ancient China. The six strategies (Civil, Military, Dragon, Tiger, Leopard, and Hound) each deal with a different subject and corresponding plan for success.
In Phantom Soldier the Battle Arrays of Sun Bin are explained so they are applicable to modern units right now.
I don't agree with J R Dunn on his critic on John Poole's writing. J R Dunn referrers to him self as a military historian, if he really is this, he should know better than to confuse efforts that use history as example with absolute truths. I doubt that Mr. Dunn ever participated in a battle or even a fire-fight. If he had he would know that fighting is complex and very fluid, you cannot make science of art. What John Poole really does is to try and make use think the right way.
If a force with all its modern weapons, support, intelligence assets and the overall technological superiority would be able to adopt this way of thinking it would be unstoppable.
If you keep one eye on history and the other on the future - you will be blind on one eye.
If you keep two eyes on the future you will be blind on both.
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Title: One More Bridge to Cross: Lowering the Cost of War by H. John Poole, William S. Lind ISBN: 0963869531 Publisher: Posterity Pr Pub. Date: 15 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.50 |
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Title: The Tiger's Way: A U.S. Private's Best Chance for Survival by H. J. Poole, Edward Molina, H. John Poole ISBN: 0963869566 Publisher: Posterity Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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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: The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security by Grant Tedrick Hammond ISBN: 1560989416 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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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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