Hog pilots, blue water grunts : the American military in the air, at sea, and on the ground / Robert D Kaplan
Imprint
New York : Random House, 2007
Descript
428 p. : maps ; 25 cm
CONTENT
America's African rifles -- Alaska to Thailand: the organizing principle of the Earth's surface -- Civilization unto itself, swishing through the crushing void -- Geeks with tattos: the most driven men I have ever known -- NATO's ragged Southern edge -- Gurkha standard -- Tribal mafias -- Dependable blue-collar plane -- Timbuktu, Soviet stonehenge, and gnarly-ass jungle -- Big glider and the jagged boomerang -- Morbid tyranny out of antiquity
SUBJECT
Soldiers -- United States -- History -- 21st century