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Title: Digital War: A View from the Front Lines by Robert L. Bateman ISBN: 0-89141-685-4 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent
Comment: A book that tells it like it is. No doubt about it, this is a unique work.
Rating: 3
Summary: So Many Avenues...So Little Time
Comment: The fleeting nature of the evolving battlefield makes this book a benchmark to electronics and weapons...but for only a short period of time. One of the most fascinating things one can do with this book is speculate "what ifs" of past conflicts if fighting forces possessed the magnitude of perfect intelligence postulated for the future. Fact is that a number of battles which U.S. forces won against numerically superior forces might have turned out differently if personnel would have had near perfect intelligence.
The book is a series of essays that Captain Bateman compiled by corresponding with fellow officers. Some of the essays are right on target for now and the future while others will probably never come to fruition for a vary of reasons. As pointed out in the book, the full potential of digitization on the battlefield will fall far short until the completion of a paradigm shift at ALL levels of leadership. While the subject is addressed, more could have been written about the dangers of decision-makers "drowning in data while thirsting for knowledge".
Rating: 5
Summary: It Could've Been Better
Comment: While interesting, the book is somewhat limited. Not a word is mentioned about the Navy plans for "Network Centric" Warfare, the Air Force is ignored entirely, and the Marines are not mentioned either. The editor selected only "trigger pullers" to write, all of the authors (with one exception) are infantry or armor soldiers, not a broad group to say the least.
The book is interesting, although the quality of the chapters is uneven. Buy this book only if you are a professional ground combat person, or interesting in that topic.
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Title: Transformation Under Fire : Revolutionizing How America Fights by Douglas A. Macgregor ISBN: 0275981924 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Iraq War : A Military History by Williamson Murray, Robert H., Jr. Scales ISBN: 0674012801 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by Bruce Berkowitz ISBN: 0743212495 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward ISBN: 074325547X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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