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Narrative Type
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United States
Features
Dust Jacket
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults
ISBN
9781400061334

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400061334
ISBN-13
9781400061334
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59102950

Product Key Features

Book Title
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts : the American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Military / General, Military / United States, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Robert D. Kaplan
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
26.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Reviews
"A valuable bridge across the country's widening civil-military divide. It is an important contribution to our understanding of how this military works in the 21st century." -The New York Times "No one understands better the burdens carried by today's men and women in uniform. If you aren't reading Kaplan, you aren't fully informed." -Minneapolis Star Tribune "Again and again in this book, we see how military service, even in peacetime, provides the catalyst that allows common men to perform uncommon deeds." -The Wall Street Journal "Recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand the full reach of America's global military power, or trying to comprehend the incredibly complicated, but increasingly important, soft-power demands being placed on today's military." -The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.
Synopsis
In this extraordinary book, Kaplan allows readers to experience the worldwide American military at sea, in the air, and on land. Throughout, Kaplan conveys not only the vast scope of the militarys commitments, but also how these operations appear to the troops themselves., In this extraordinary book, Robert D. Kaplan lets readers experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground: flying in a B-2 bomber, living on a nuclear submarine, and traveling with a Stryker brigade on missions around the world. Provided unprecedented access, Kaplan moves from destroyers off the coast of Indonesia to submarines in the central Pacific, from simulated Iraqi training grounds in Alaska to technology bases in Las Vegas, from army and marine land forces in the heart of the Sahara Desert, to air bases in Guam and Thailand and beyond. Hog Pilots, Blue Water Gruntsprovides not only a riveting ground-level portrait of the Global War on Terrorism on several continents, but also a gritty firsthand account of how U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen are protecting sea-lanes, providing disaster relief, contending with the military rise of China, fighting the war in Iraq, and crafting contingency plans for war with North Korea and Iran. Expanding on Kaplan's acclaimed Imperial Grunts, the first volume of his exploration of the American military, which "offers the reader an enlightened way to understand what is happening in the world" (San Francisco Chronicle),Hog Pilots, Blue Water Gruntsshifts focus to the Pacific, where emerging Asian powers present vexing diplomatic and strategic challenges to U.S. influence. In this volume, Kaplan completes his analysis of army Special Forces and the marines, while also taking readers into the heart of the myriad tribal cultures of the air force, surface and subsurface navies, and the regular army's Stryker brigades. Kaplan goes deep into their highly technical and exotic worlds, and he tells this story through the words and perspectives of the enlisted personnel and junior officers themselvesmen and women who, as he writes, have "had their national identities as Americans engraved in sharp bas-relief." This provocative and illuminating book, likeImperial Gruntsbefore it, not only conveys the vast scope of America's military commitments, which rarely make it into the news, but also shows us astonishing and vital operations right as they unfoldfrom the point of view of the troops themselves. From the Hardcover edition.
LC Classification Number
UA23

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