Conservative or Liberal, Democrat or Republican, Bush or Kerry, you should read William Lind’s column, On War. The man has a good sense of what kind of war we’re actually fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it’s dismaying. It’s disheartening to realize that he’d predicted weeks in advance some of the types of setbacks our armed forces are facing.
I’m also going to re-read Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror on his recommendation.
