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Richard Marcinko’s Rogue Warrior is most notable for its controversial author, who helped pioneer SOF special mission units and then was one of the first to also write about them (Marcinko 1992).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
It’s about winning the war for popular opinion, teaching the world to abandon the old and embrace the new.
Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, • Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
the test of statesmen is the durability of political structures under stress, while prophets gauge their achievements against absolute standards. If the statesman assesses possible courses of action on the basis of their utility rather than their ‘truth’, the prophet regards this approach as sacrilege, a triumph of expediency over universal
... See moreHenry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy (Vandenbroucke 1993).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
With the notable exception of Patton, Matthew Ridgway, and J. Lawton Collins, most American generals led from the rear.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, at sixty-eight, was not only the oldest, but the most senior commander in the Wehrmacht.e Known as the “Black Knight” (Schwarzer Ritter), he had led the invasion of Poland in 1939, the breakthrough in the Ardennes in 1940, and the capture of Kiev in 1941.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
