Quote Originally Posted by MarMan View Post
The Savage Wars of Peace, sounds interesting. Whose point of view is it?
It's a reasonable question, and one that I was concerned about, at first, but I would say that there really isn't one. I found the book a bit academic in tone, such as you might find from a professor writing for a class, but there wasn't too much about that until the end. I would say that the author was a military historian trying to make the case that we spent a couple centuries learning how to do 'small wars', then shelved all that knowledge over the course of the two HUGE wars, and we really need to dust off all that learning for the modern world.

Along the way, it discussed several actions that have been largely forgotten by Americans, and several individual characters who shaped the military (mostly the Marine Corps, but also the early Navy and Army). It was also the second book that I have read in the last three months that made reference to an undeclared naval war between the US and France at the end of the 18th century, without describing it at all. That one doesn't make the history books.