Hog pilots, blue water grunts

Name: Hog pilots, blue water grunts
ISBN: 9781400061334

the American military in the air, at sea, and on the ground

by Robert D. Kaplan

3/5

(35 votes)

In this extraordinary audiobook, Robert D.

Kaplan lets listeners experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground.

HOG PILOTS, BLUE WATER GRUNTS provides not only a ground-level portrait of the Global War on Terror.

Format: 428 pages
First published: 2007
Publishers: Random House
Language: English

I spent a carrier in the Navy and this book missed the feeling that came with that. Somehow the author goes from place to place and believes everything every base commander tell him about his capabilities etc.

Compared to his earlier book, The Imperial Grunts, this one is not as good but it enhanced my view of the US Military much more than the "Imperial Grunts" since that book was mostly written about the ground forces deployed around the world. This one is about the naval, air forces and ground forces altogether but its emphasis is more on Air Force and Navy.

This is a really bad book. Kaplan plays toy soldier, hangs out with military units all over the world and comes back with no particular insight and nothing to say.

About Robert D. Kaplan

Robert David Kaplan is an American journalist, currently a National Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His writings have also been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, among other newspapers and publications, and his more controversial essays about the nature of U.S. power have spurred debate in academia, the media, and the highest levels of government. A frequent theme in his work is the reemergence of cultural and historical tensions temporarily suspended during the Cold War....

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