My dad has an old copy of this book that he picked up while he was still in the Army. I found it one day and glanced over it, but didn't read much. Hmmm, maybe I'll have to go back and look through it more thoroughly now.

It remembers me another book about military history, which I got as a farewell gift at the end of my military career (I was 55) :

"On the psychology of military incompetence", written by Norman F. Dixon, Ed. Jonathan Cape London 1975.

All the officers in charge should read it .

Comments on the back of the book's cover :

"Hundred years of misjudgements and stupid decisions, since the Crimean War until Pearl Harbour ...

How is this possible?"

......

"The conclusion is obvious:

to make good soldiers ,only the best civilians should be selected for a military career ."

A very good book for the national strategist of the early 20th century.

Another one that few forget is Carl von Clausewitz: "On War", which highlighted the use of mobility in land warfare and philosophy of Western Warfare. It basically outlined the later strategies of Germany in the opening moves of World War I and World War II along with mobilization of nations like the US later for World War II.