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Cargando... Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combatpor James R. McDonough
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Pretty good, although recommended only for military professionals or the more advanced military reader; the book is very focused on modern warfare command level issues and so may not appeal to the casual reader. ( ) The Defense of Hill 781 adapts the technique of a scenario and action report of The Defence of Duffer's Drift (1905) to modern armored warfare. We follow LTC A. Tack Always through failure and success during six missions of armored warfare. I found some of the mistakes made too trivial and unworthy of a LTC especially regarding task force composition. The bigger flaw, however, is that the era of big tank battles is probably over. Just as the Defence of Duffer's Drift did not prepare the British for the trench horrors of WWI, The Defense of Hill 781 was of little use in the conflicts fought by the US since its publication in 1993. A tank battle that stretches over multiple days where the two forces are resupplied in relatively open terrain isn't very likely to occur and does not capture the fluidity of armored or cavalry warfare. An OK read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Brilliant, hardhitting description of modern war on the U.S. Army's premier training ground. A must-read tactical primer for today's warrior."--John C. "Doc" Bahnsen, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.) At the turn of the century a small, humorous book on tactics was published. The Defense of Duffer's Drift quickly became a bestseller and today is still widely read. The Defense of Hill 781 is a modem version of this classic--a tactical primer with ample funpoking, but with serious lessons to be learned. Lt. Col. A. Tack Always Finds himself in the California high desert, alone, disheveled, confused. A guide soon appears to inform him of his situation: He has died and is now in Purgatory (his humility in the Army was somewhat lacking) where he must atone for past sins. Purgatory is, aptly, the U.S. Army's National Training Center (NTC), and Lt. Col. Always may earn his way out by completing a successful mission. Through a series of six missions, the reader plans and fights with Lt. Col. Always, making the split-second decisions that determine victory or defeat, life or death. Through successive difficulties, some important lessons are burned into the commander's brain--lessons about tactics, about people, about what it takes to fight a winning battle. Like Duffer's Drift this book is a valuable resource for all military tacticians. For the armchair general, it is a fascinating look at how the members of a military unit work together in combat. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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