wombat_socho

Glad you enjoyed it. Hog Pilots and Blue Water Grunts was also good but sort of continuation of imperial grunts.

The military fell in love with kaplan with Balkan Ghosts, which was basically all they had to go on when clinton go us involved over there in the mid ninties.

What made imperial grunts so interesting to me was that it was written pre - surge.
Kaplans 2 main points about the war in Iraq where
1) we need more troops
2) need to move out of the big secure fortress like areas run by generals into small outposts that were better connected to the local surroundings with lower ranking officers and senior nco's relied upon to make decisions in the field.

In essence he spelled out what the solution was pre surge. I believe the number of journalist that came to similar conclusions wouldnt have filled a phone booth, even if Kaplan was all ready in the phone booth.

This is why I like Kaplan so much.