While visiting The Military Reading Room, I discovered that senior flag officers of the US Armed Forces like to read biographies of, you guessed it, senior flag officers of the US Armed Forces. One exception to this general rule (pun intended) can be found on the bookshelves of a one-time chief of staff of the US Army. There, the place of honor belonged to Once an Eagle, a novel that contrasts the service of a duty-driven soldier-loving leader against the career of a self-serving politician in uniform. Another outlier in this parade of most-favored books, the fruit of the brush of Sun Tzu, came from the library of the late Alfred Gray.
Break. Break.
My attempt to make sense about events in Syria ate up the time I had set aside to write reviews of Substack articles that I read in the past week. Because of this, I will postpone those reviews until the next installment of this series and limit myself to a single recommendation. Of the dozens of videos on the subject of the Syrian civil war I have watched in the past two days, the best, by far, is the one published by History Legends. So, if you are looking whole lot of well-sourced, delightfully-detailed, and thoughtfully-presented military information, please click the following link.
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Once an Eagle - among my favorites
"50 Shades of Jihad" - that's gold.