Scary good review of Kaplan's Imperial Grunts in TNR
Here is the reference:
THE FALSE FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY. The Cowboy Culture by David Rieff Post date 10.01.05 | Issue date 10.10.05
Here is a reference that both delights and demeans (I was long gone from the college when I wrote my criticism), but no bother, all will be reminded in the November issue of Esquire:
Kaplan's many books have won him a wide following within the United States military: Imperial Grunts comes festooned with praise from retired senior officers such as Anthony Zinni and Barry McCaffrey, and an acknowledgements section in which the military theorist and pundit, retired Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters, is credited with the idea for the book. One of Kaplan's critics, Thomas P. M. Barnett, a professor at the Naval War College, once accused him of accepting without question the views of the Pacific Command about China in an article that Kaplan wrote in The Atlantic Monthly about the coming confrontation between the United States and China.
See the whole thing: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20051010&s=rieff101005
Rieff, I like, as a rule. Smart guy.
But it would have been cooler if the blog and the blogger had been referenced.
Pretty cool huh? Blog writing now becoming a mainstream source for big-time mags.