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How we fight.(Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy)(Book review)
Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy, by Frederick W. Kagan (Encounter, 432 pp., $29,95)
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THE Bush administration's military policy in general and its conduct of the Iraq War in particular have taken some serious hits lately. Two recent books--Cobra II by Michael Gordon and Mick Trainor, and Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks--have launched harsh indictments against current policies, but tended to ignore the fact that war is always characterized by friction and the "fog of uncertainty." Things go wrong in war despite the very best planning. Frederick Kagan's Finding the ...
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