New Rules of War, The Agincourt

New Rules of War, The Agincourt"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." (Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO) An Economist Book of the Year 2019 An urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare past, present and future and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University. War is timeless. Some things change weapons, tactics,

It will change forever the way you think about your morning run —-or

It was from Basilone and other sergeants that Tatum would learn how to fight like a Marine and act like a man—skills he would need when he hit the black sand of Iwo Jima with thirty thousand other Marines

or social behavior crosses a threshold

This devastating account rises above the specific ordeal it chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge

Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries

And in one of the most startling and unknown stories of modern military history

A communist coup in the late 1970s overthrew the established regime and led to the invasion of Soviet troops in 1979

He devised innovative tactics

disrupting

And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods

A devastating ambush in Iraq

and how to prepare it