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Fighting Today's Wars: How America's Leaders Have Failed Our Warriors Hardcover – December 19, 2011

by David G. Bolgiano (Author), James M. Patterson (Author)

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One of the most important books to emerge from a decade of wars. Read it. Then send a copy to your member of Congress. --Ralph Peters, Fox News Strategic Analyst and author of Lines of Fire

Gives thorough background on the law of war and analysis on how these laws should be applied

A critical commentary of our military's strategy, including nation-building efforts and counterinsurgency operations

How misinterpretations of law and policy misdirect the military from the objective of achieving victory

Identifies correctable problems in how America decides to go to war and prepares for battle

Gives solutions for restoring the role of America's Armed Forces

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A former law enforcement officer and paratrooper, David "Bo" Bolgiano served multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and Special Operations Forces. He is the author of Combat Self-Defense: Saving America's Warriors from Risk-Averse Commanders and Their Lawyers (978-0-9791824-0-2). He lives in Delaware. Colonel Jim Patterson has over 32 years of experience as a Green Beret and legal advisor. A Special Forces Weapons Specialist, Combat Diver and Master Parachutist, Jim has served in multiple combat rotations and provided direct operational law support of special mission units. He lives in Illinois.

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Stackpole Books; 1st edition (December 19, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811707768
ISBN-13: 978-0811707763
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
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Raymond D. Grosser

A book urgently needed for those who wonder what went wrong.........

August 28, 2014

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This is an amazing revelation of what is happening to the US Military because of the US culture now being compromised at every turn by American liberalism. The American people are woefully ignorant about what they have permitted to come into their churches, schools, and thinking and as a result they cannot see the destruction of the American dream.

The two authors clearly spell out what political correctness has brought to the military and it is clear to see how the nation is no longer able to set a moral and just course for living. I urge everyone who desires to know the truth about what has become of a once mighty nation to get and read this book. There may be little that can be done about it now that so many have been deceived into thinking that all is well and things will again turn around to becoming reasonable again, but at least the reader will KNOW.

This book will make one angry. This book will make one mourn the state of the union. This book will make one think, and in the end it may not have the force for change needed but at least the reader will know. It has been said that the country might survive the present corrupt administration but the truth is that the country cannot survive an electorate that votes for the type of leadership ruling against a constitution and the will of a majority of honest people in the nation.

As a former Staff Sergeant in the US Army Special Forces, I truly wonder whether I would be able to serve under the present conditions being required by the officers and leaders today who have compromised so much in order to satisfy the desires of the corrupt civil elites who now own the schools and power in the government. All this did not happen over the last couple of decades but it certainly has slipped faster into darkness as more and more are accepting the conditions we as a nation have set for ourselves by electing leaders void of any real moral compass.

Buy the book and read it for yourself. Learn what has happened to the military because of the civil corruption of heart and mind and soul of the nations power seekers.

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Should Be Mandatory for Senior Military Leaders and National Politicians

June 3, 2013

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A refreshing tell-it-like-it-is critique of recent military operations. These two Warriors who authored this laid it out there with no holes barred. It must have taken much courage to call out our defense policies that have gone off the deep end of the politically correct pool. This book should be a wake-up call to reexamine our doctrine especially our Rules of Engagement. A must read for politicians who want to be in the know about how some of our senior military leaders are risking Soldiers lives for the sake of political correctness. Well done gentlemen!

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Legally Aware, Combat Savvy, Victory Oriented

January 17, 2012

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As a veteran of one of the wars of the title, I have experienced the sinking feeling that comes when you recognize that elements in your own command are more concerned about the welfare of your enemies than their own troops. Bo and Jim have written a remarkably insightful book about why this happens, how this happens, and how to stop it.

I consider the chance that Big Green will adopt these wise prescriptions to be approximately zero. The chance that they will retaliate against the authors is unity, 1:1. They knew the career consequences and had the courage to go to press... they'd be up for a Profiles in Courage award, if their conclusions were politically correct. Readers may be grateful that their conclusions were not; it makes for a much more readable book.

Both of the authors are military lawyers, but (you know what I'm going to say, like when your buddy shows up with a pair of strippers -- "but they're not like all the others." But in all seriousness, these guys are not like all the others). They come out of the special operations community, where even the lawyers have to contribute to mission accomplishment positively or hit the bricks. Military lawyers have been key to some of the most bandwidth-wasting pseudo-scandals, and have -- sua sponte, as it were -- made a complete hash of rules of engagement. For illustration's sake, the authors provide an intricate, complex graphic of how a private in contact should escalate force. A document that could only have been drafted by someone who sits behind a desk fiddling with powerpoint and has not interacted much with combat arms troopers.

The problem isn't just the lawyers, though. Lawyers are still subordinate to commanders, and too many commanders hide behind their staff judge advocates and punish unfavorable reports, the same risk-aversion technique employed by the ostrich. Perhaps it works for the ostrich (hard to argue with natural selection) but it's bad policy for human beings and human organizations.

The book is brief, and readable, but it is deep and has added more things to my reading list. It has also explained a few combat-zone "What in the name of Niffelheim were they thinking?" moments. If you, like me, are a combat veteran you will find a grim snort or chortle at least every few pages. Grim because it's not really funny, ha-ha. You need to buy and read this book, and the greater the leadership authority entrusted to you, the more you need to read it. You need to buy it for your SJA, especially if he or she is that freshly-minted captain who's trying to apply 500 years of just war and use of force theory through the funhouse prism of fresh law school. If you are one of the folks the author derides as "certain elements of the JAG Corps...pipe-smoking intellectuals that never were warriors, and despise those who were...." you need to buy all the copies of this book you can find lest your next commander read it, and expect mission-oriented operational thinking from you.

If you're a policy maker or policy staffer, you need this book to see how the organization is failing the men and women trying to make it work, and start to brainstorm solutions.

Finally, if you're still serving as a combat troop, the section on the Law of Self-Defense is clear and concise and may save you, when one of those "certain elements" decides that making an example of you for a combat decision is his path to a fat post-retirement paycheck at Covington and Burling or elsewhere in the al-Qaeda bar.

As every war winds down there are analytical books that are talked about in professional circles, and that empower rising young leaders to avoid the errors they suffered from. After Vietnam, they included Crisis in Command: Mismanagement in the Army and Self-Destruction, the Disintegration and Decay of the United States Army During the Vietnam Era. As in the 1970s, we have an excellent force that needs a leadership tune-up. I'm not sure what other books will emerge from our ten years of fighting Islamist terrorism and timid leadership, but one of them will definitely be Fighting Today's Wars.

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Fighting Today's Wars - an inside view of what is wrong with today's military leadership

May 3, 2014

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FTW is a compelling study of what is wrong with our military leadership and how it got to be that way. As a combat veteran from Vietnam, I found the book tremendously informative, factual...and very sad. When I think of the rules of engagement that our war fighters must employ down range, it saddens me to my very soul. The Afghan war transition is Vietnamization on steroids...and we all know how that turned out.

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An interesting and thought provoking view of how we are ...

September 22, 2016

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An interesting and thought provoking view of how we are fighting today's wars as well as how we should be fighting them. Read the book and then see where we are and how things are going. A real eye opener!

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Jane's Review of Son's Book

January 21, 2012

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This book took a lot of courage for the co-authors to write. Now, if only our military, civilian, Congressmen, leaders will read this and change their present policy. Well written and contains a lot of history of our former battles and how they have affected our country. How PRESIDENT OBAMA needs to step up and think about these brave men and women who go to fight for our country. One of these co-authors is my son, James M. Patterson - I found out a lot of info about what he has been doing these past 33 years - true to his duty, he has been very close-mouthed about all his training, etc.

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Kindle Customer

Solidly written

March 23, 2016

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Well written from a professional point of view. This discussion does a great job discussing the disconnect between lawyers and warriors.

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