The possibility that next January the country will have an anti-establishment president makes military reform again relevant. Two new books usefully address the subject in ways that update the reform agenda, one looking back at previous efforts and one looking forward at a new and deadly threat to military effectiveness.
The first is Col. Douglas Macgregor’s Margin of Victory: Five Battles That Changed the Face of Modern War. The title is hyperbolic; it would be more accurate to say, “Five Battles That Illustrate Reform Successes and Failures.” But that probably wouldn’t sell. Publishers, not authors, choose titles.
Macgregor’s first account, of Mons …read more
Source: The American Conservative
