"The Kind of answers you'd get in an informal conversation with an old Pentagon hand." Armed Forces Journal International.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent for understanding the Pentagon's inner workings,
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This review is from: Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book) (Paperback)
As an Air Force Captain currently assigned to the Pentagon, I've found this book to be invaluable in understanding how the pieces fit together in the Puzzle Palace. I read it once before arriving and have re-read several sections during my tenure in the Pentagon. I anxiously await Gen. Smith's next update.
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An invaluable source for analysis of the DoD,
By (Jeffrey A. Liss) monupics@yahoo.com (Baltimore, Maryland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book) (Paperback)
Assignment Pentagon: An fascinating, almost voyeuristic, look into the world behind those five-sided walls, this book is invaluable for officers newly posted to ground zero of the DoD bureaucracy. I read it as a college student studying international relations and the formulation of U.S. foreign/defense policy and found it essential for understanding the unique culture that operates at the Department of Defense. Anyone who wants to understand how the world's largest office building, and the bureaucracy it supports, really works should read this book. Its lessons and observations are applicable to most corporate environment, and I could easily see Assignment Pentagon, or some adaptation thereof, becoming the "Art of War" of the next decade.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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How to Survive in the Puzzle Palace,
By "live7habits@hotmail.com" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book) (Paperback)
If you ever wondered about what it is like to work inside the Pentagon, or what it takes to work on a high level staff, then this book is for you. Although primarily written for Pentagon staffers, this book applies to all staffers at all levels of the military and civilian/private sector. Not a whole lot of theory, just a lot of good, first-hand experience and common sense. This book helped me in previous assignments, and now I refer to it often while assigned to the Pentagon.
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