Title: insights into military thought
Product review: McPherson's "Tried by War" and a lecture on "Beyond Jomini" by Carol Reardon ("Pickett's Charge in History & Memory") at the Penn State Richards Center for Civil War Era Studies in March 2009 prompted a search for more information on military strategic thought during the American Civil War (especially Dennis Hart Mahan). That search yielded "Against All Enemies" which offered a series of essays on different time periods by a stable of reasonably well known authors. [Thank you Amazon for providing Table of Contents while considering my book purchases.] The colonial & American Revolution essays guided me to several primary sources which have me seriously reconsidering much of the criticism of General Howe's generalship. I am glad I purchased this work and will read more closely additional essays after I complete the tangents it influenced on the Civil War and American Revolution.
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