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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (23879)	12/22/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: Bill Grant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>>Just said his opinion is no more valid than yours or mine. Your comments have not demonstrated otherwise.>> *********************************************** Pezz, Maybe the following synopsis of his latest non-fiction work will change your mind. The man has authored or co-authored at least 4 books in the 90s on military and public policy issues. *************************************** From the Barnes and Noble site: Hazardous Duty David H. Hackworth Tom Matthews Retail Price: $14.00 Our Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) In-Stock: Ships within 24 hours Format: Paperback, 353pp. ISBN:0380727420 Publisher:Avon Books Pub. Date: July 1997 Other Formats:Hardcover Synopsis Maverick military hero and war correspondent Col. David Hackworth has earned more than 70 awards for heroism as well as eight purple hearts. More than any other military commentator, he has the trust and confidence of millions of soldiers worldwide. In this real-life, heard-hitting, nonfiction thriller, Hackworth explains what's wrong with the modern U.S. military and calls America's top political and military leaders to acccount for selling out duty, honor, and country. Reviews and Commentary This Book was reviewed by: The Publisher, Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal From The Publisher: In Hazardous Duty - a real life, nonfiction thriller set in the ruins of Bosnia and the sands of Saudi Arabia, the deadly alleys of Mogadishu and the teeming streets of Port-au-Prince - Colonel David Hackworth completes a second tour of battlefield duty, this time as a war correspondent. In his hard-hitting, inimitable style, he tells of the sacrifices of ordinary grunts in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Korea, and Haiti, and offers a tough-love critique of American military leadership, explaining America's role in new post-Cold War conflicts. Colonel David H. Hackworth is America's most decorated living soldier, with more than one hundred awards, including two Distinguished Service Crosses, nine Silver Stars, eight Bronze Stars for valor, and eight Purple Hearts, which he considers the most meaningful because, he says, "they can't be faked." More than any other military commentator, he has the trust and confidence of the millions of soldiers - from foreign armies as well as our own - who cheered every word of his widely acclaimed autobiography. A wake-up call for military reform, Hazardous Duty pulls no punches in calling America's top political and military leaders to account for selling out duty, honor, and country. Colonel Hackworth returns from America's new battlefields to report that the Pentagon is wasting billions of dollars. He offers no-nonsense solutions for streamlining the military services and rationalizing their missions to confront the new face of war. From Publisher's Weekly: Hackworth (About Face) is the most highly decorated living U.S. soldier. He's also a take-no-prisoners critic of America's contemporary defense establishment. Here, he uses his experiences as a Newsweek correspondent in the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Haiti, Korea and the Balkans to illustrate and denounce a military-industrial-political system that, he charges, gives rank and power to "Perfumed Princes" at the expense of "warrior studs." A chapter detailing Hackworth's controversial investigation of Admiral Jeremy Boorda's alleged misappropriation of combat decorations a scandal that ended in Boorda's suicide serves as a case study of what Hackworth sees as the armed forces' continued devotion to appearance rather than performance. Hackworth's attacks on log-rolling and careerism seem like justified responses to the bureaucratization endemic to any complex organization. His repeated indictments of "politics over tactics," however, appears to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the customary role of armed force in national policy...