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"Women who read this book will be inspired to throw away their diets and scales and pick up on the nurturing, caring voice presented in these pages." --Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter, authors of Overcoming Overeating.
Carol Emery Normandi and Laurelee Roark founded the nonprofit organization Beyond Hunger, Inc. because they had each struggled for years with eating disorders--and discovered that most of the programs available couldn't provide true, permanent recovery. To achieve that, they found they had to address the physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds that lay at the core of their unhealthy eating behavior--to go beyond the hunger of their physical bodies and meet the hunger that resided in their very souls. The techniques used in the Beyond Hunger workshops have helped many women change their minds about food and weight--and change their lives in the process. This compassionate, supportive book shows how it can be done--and offers to help women put an end to the rollercoaster of dieting and bingeing once and for all.
* Includes a foreword by the authors of the bestseller Overcoming Overeating
* "Normandi and Roark are like patient coaches detaching women from their obsessions with food, deprogramming societal and family messages about acceptable weight, offering tools and excercises to transform destructive behaviors into opportunities for self-reflection."--San Jose Mercury News
"It's Not About Food is an important part of the growing movement to return women's bodies to their rightful owners." --Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth
Customer Reviews:
Helpful, thought provoking.......2007-10-02
This book relates the personal journeys of two women, Carol and Laurelee, with their struggles to overcome obsession with food, dieting and negative body image. In the course of telling their stories and the stories of many women they have worked with, a very powerful set of lessons unfolds. I read the book over a period of months, reading, re-reading, putting it down and then picking it up. There are meditations and exercises in the book that are very helpful. For example, they have an exercise in the book about sending loving thoughts to parts of your body that you dislike. What a concept! The basic message is that an eating disorder is a way of coping with life and by looking deeply at your relationship with food you can learn what it is you really need in life, pursue that, and food will get back into a normal perspective. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has issues with food or loves someone who has issues with food. That includes just about everyone I think!
End Your Obsessions.......2006-11-17
While the authors specialize in dealing with people who have issues with Overeating, I felt that the book was very useful in helping me address my issues with anorexia. The book challenges you to dig into the issues behind why you're involved in a practice of eating (for me, restricting) and to understand how you're using food to substitute for other methods of dealing with your problems. I would highly recommend this book to anyone on the road to recovery from and Eating Disorder.
The Book Changed My Life.......2006-11-17
This book was a gift given to me by a friend years ago. I own and have read about twelve books on the topic. Out of all of them, this has been by far the best. By the end it feels like a journey inside yourself has taken place and you arrive to a new destination--on your insides. The feel of the book is one of love and support. Not the self-centered type, or author as guru type, this one has the experience of two professional therapists that shows in each chapter. If you have any eating issues then this book is a worthwhile read.
Does not help at all.......2006-10-21
I actually returned this book because it had very little , if anything, to do with WHY you actually compulsively eat. it did not go into or even explained the psychological factors that influence C.O. all this book talk about is how women's self-image is polluted with diet ads etc, etc. it does not deal at all with how to actually stop, in an effective way.
same thing as Overcoming Overeating. the whole point of the book is to stop dieting and to stop having a dieting mentality. also it doe snot deal with the actual cause of you overeating ( which is not dieting)
if you really want to overcome overeating and end your obsession with food, you need to know why you are physiologically addicted to food. why you find so much pleasure in it. and for that you have to read books with substantial research, not just a feminist sound-off.
read : the pleasure trap, LIfe is hard- food is easy , to name a few good ones.
but this one and her other one won't help you at all.
true story.......2005-09-14
This book is full of good information on why a person overeats. It isn't a book you can read in one evening. It will take some time to read it thoroughly.
Book Description
What if you could lose weight easily--without diets, calorie counters, or complicated workouts?
For the last twenty-five years, Dr. Ronald J. Glassman has helped thousands of his patients lose weight—from five pounds to 150 pounds—and keep it off. And he knows that the answer to overeating is not another diet or exercise regimen. The answer is to harness the power of your mind. The Alpha Solution presents his phenomenally successful scientific approach to easy, permanent weight loss—and proves that you literally can think yourself thin.
For many of us, the result of years of poor eating, or eating for psychological and social reasons rather than nutritional ones, means that, subconsciously, we have been conditioned to eat the wrong foods in the wrong quantities. Despite our desire to be lean, strong, and healthy, we’re still subconsciously programmed to overeat, crave certain foods, and snack unnecessarily. This is why diets don’t work: Even if we know we should choose salad over pizza, our subconscious mind—ingrained with years of negative eating habits—undermines our efforts at every turn. The solution? Give your brain a new food blueprint by tapping into its “Alpha” state—the state right before you fall asleep in which your subconscious mind is open to suggestion and change.
Through a series of simple questionnaires, Dr. Glassman guides you through the process of identifying the food issues you need to overcome and creating two personalized scripts tailored to your specific weight loss needs. You will then record the scripts on a tape or CD and listen to the recordings each night as you fall asleep. The changes are immediate and dramatic—you will begin reaching for healthy foods, keeping proper portion sizes, and turning down the fattening, sugary foods you used to crave. Within days, your eating habits will be transformed and you will begin melting away the pounds—seemingly without effort!
Filled with success stories, The Alpha Solution is already changing the lives of people everywhere. Losing weight has never been this easy—and you will never have to “diet” again. What could be better than that?
No counting calories
No carb restriction
No complex menus
No special workouts
Finally, a medically proven way to change your relationship with food forever--no diet or exercise required! This revolutionary book reveals how to literally think yourself thin: by simply and easily training your brain to automatically crave healthy foods in the proper portions. Whether you want to lose ten pounds or fifty, The Alpha Solution will quickly make diet struggles a thing of the past—and keep you fit and thin for life!
Customer Reviews:
A New Way to Weight Loss.......2007-05-31
There are so many books and plans out there on weight loss and proper eating. A person can easily become confused. Living here in Alaska, I've learned how the extreme cold and darkness of winter can make weighty foods like chocolate almost irrestible. And there is nothing like a big pizza or Calzone after a below zero walk with our two Greenland Huskies.
Now there's a new way, which helps us attack our poor eating habits ---through self-hypnosis. The author works healthy weight loss through the brain, rather than the stomach.
Our minds can become so accustomed to late night snacks, for example, when we become fearful, or find it difficult to sleep.
Dr. Glassman said he himself had such habits and was quite overweight, but ultimately lost 100 pounds through working out what he calls "a healthy eating mind."
Briefly, he advises recording two personalized scripts on a CD or casette (if you still have one those antique recording devices). And then playing them at night when we lie down to go to sleep. The recordings identify the food issues we need to overcome. It is diffucult for me to see any part of me ever satisfied with a lot less chocolate, but I'd like to give this system a try.
He recommends that any person using this approach check it out with their doctor, but says that hypnosis in general is as safe as daydreaming.
It would be nice to shed some pounds. Maybe then I'll be better able to keep up with our lean and speedy Huskies!
Earl
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Creating Your New Lifestyle is a testament of one mans journey in not only losing over 100 pounds, but going one step further and helping thousands of other people to do the same. Through a rare combination of warmth, humor, and inspiration, this book addresses the universal truth that in order to lose weight and keep it off, we must first overcome our own behaviors. Creating Your New Lifestyle provides a comprehensive process for addressing your behaviors, overcoming them, losing the weight, and truly creating a new lifestyle. Within this book you ll learn to: identify and overcome behaviors that are causing you to be overweight; how to take a stand in your life and make the decision to change; stay in the moment and learn to manage and control food cravings; overcome over eating habits caused from stress, boredom, comfort and other reasons; identify the saboteurs around you and learn what to do about them; transform your body, self-esteem, and self-image; lose the weight; and learn the secrets to keeping it off.
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Rather than promoting a specific diet or exercise plan, Change Your Mind, Change Your Weight focuses on the key to lasting weight loss: rational optimism. Approaching life’s challenges with a positive frame of mind correlates with better health, longevity, and a greater likelihood of achieving one’s goals. In this book, the author presents real-life examples, exercises, and self-quizzes to help the reader achieve a positive, more realistic state of mind. Drawing on cognitive-behavioral psychology, Raeleen Mautner helps readers regain control of their emotions — and their weight.
Customer Reviews:
Good information but..........2004-08-03
This little book has a lot of informative techniques on what you can do to win the weight battle. Instead of focusing on nutrition D'Agostino zeros in on your mind. How to use the mind to help you help yourself to the body you deserve.
The book includes ideas such as aversion therapy (ie imagining the food in a negative manner), rethinking your attitude after you have blown it, visualization etc.
The draw back is, as another reviewer pointed out the editing. If someone is going to write a book on "loosing" weight lets at least spell it correctly. Throughout the text the word "loosing" kept cropping up casting doubts on the authors expert ability to help anyone be effective at "losing" weight as she couldn't even spell the word! Santa "Clause" also makes an appearance. Hmmm didn't know Claus has changed the spelling of his last name. These errors and others really cast a big shadow over the book - distracting. I am not the world's greatest speller either, but if my book was up for publication I would certainly run a spell check on it.
The illustrations were also unattractive. Tiny pencil drawings of stick figures with pot bellies.
Though most of the ideas in the book are very good, you will have to look past the drawings and text errors, and that can be tough to do.
Okay book - unbelievably poorly edited.......2004-01-18
I bought D'Agostino's book, "Living La Vita Dolce," and loved her style so much that I sought out "Change Your Mind, Change Your Weight." The information in the book is nothing new but her style is engaging and she emphasizes how important it is to get your brain involved before you even attempt to change your body weight. Having said that I would have a hard time recommending this book to a friend because it is difficult to read - typographical mistakes and grammatical errors truly distract from the information. I am not talking about one or two errors throughout the whole book. An example is a section title in bold print, "The Weight-Loss Maize." Ronin Publishing, Inc. has failed this author miserably. Buy the book for the motivation it provides but be prepared to shake your head at the poor quality.
A wonderful find for the struggling dieter.......2002-11-06
This joyous book offers the dieter and would-be dieter a specific psychological plan for managing his or her thoughts, moods,and behavior in a way that helps him or her start and stick with a diet and overcome backsliding. Complex cognitive-behavioral concepts interwoven in the text are presented in a simple, comprehensible, accessible fashion, helping the dieter take control of his or her food intake and develop a life-long healthy relationship with food and eating. Useful tips come tumbling down throughout as Dr. Mautner becomes your guide and companion in the difficult but doable task ahead. I know this book worked for me. Two chapters into it and I stopped eating at night and between meals, and felt good about myself and my accomplishment. If you are struggling with losing weight, don't miss this. Highly recommended.
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Mentally Create Your Ideal Weight is an indispensable manual for anyone seeking permanent, painless weight-loss.
Author Lance Morton integrates and synthesizes the knowledge of literally hundreds of writers on the power of human thought. The author has created an owner's manual explaining with simplicity how our minds actually work.
Formulating the basic principles of the new science and art of suggestion, Mr. Morton has written a hypnosis weight-loss book that goes well beyond hypnosis.
Learn:
- Why diets don't work.
- What the media doesn't want you to know.
- The four basic principles of weight-loss.
- The seven highly effective habits of thin people.
- The three actions that you must take in order to lose weight.
- The two opposite realities that really drive all human behavior.
- Why imagination is stronger than willpower and how to use your imagination to make weight-loss enjoyable.
- A Law of Human Thinking that almost everyone uses to sabotage efforts to lose weight. Learn how to use this law to your advantage.
- The true pleasure of eating. (It's not what you think.)
- How habits are formed and how to condition new ones.
- How to make weight loss as automatic as breathing.
Customer Reviews:
Some Brilliant Theories.......2007-05-13
I think readers will want to know that the author of this book is a hypnotherapist, which is fine with me because I've had great luck with hypnosis. But if you're put off by the idea of using hypnosis for weight loss, well, you've been warned.
Mr. Morton explores some terrific ideas, such as the concept that since some of us unconsciously slow our metabolisms with our minds, we should theoretically be able to speed up our metabolisms with our minds. I've heard others discuss this same idea, and am inclined to believe it.
If you're openminded enough to take a non-traditional approach with weight loss, try Mr. Morton's book. He really does have something to offer, and I'm surprised more people haven't discovered him.
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Have you ever wanted to be and feel sexier and live with more purpose and joy? Then this book is for you! A series of easy-to-follow exercises and guided journeys will connect you to your inner truth and assist you with developing your best body and most rewarding life ever. YouÂ'll discover inner resources that will give you instant strength and peace. YouÂ'll learn how to get and stay slim, fit, and healthy for life. Best of all, you will love the life you are living.
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Metamorphosis is a weight loss program that really works.
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Making a brilliant case that the 21st century, even more than the 20th, will be "The American Century, " and that America's global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose with the development of gunpowder 500 years ago, The Future of War speaks of a new geopolitical system that will shape the next century. 480 pp. Author tour. Radio & print ads. National publicity. 25,000 print.
Customer Reviews:
Worth the Read.......2005-07-24
Friedman has done a wonderful job of laying a broad overview of US techno-politico power and policy plans for the new millenium. He has not however fully discussed the appalling breach of security that our own US based companies are guilty of committing. China has now armed themselves with advanced missile technologies that representatives and technicians of many US firms have given away. This is not only an insane and profoundly stupid act of retardation but an act of treason. Every one of these people that devulged these secrets, however casually, should be publically executed as an example.
Because of these breaches, the US is now in the midst of radically and most wisely changing its war policies. What we read about is of course the things that are known and what the government wants us to either know or feels is not a threat in having it known. My only hope in the development of conventional weaponry, we are not merely drawing plans but have the capacity to make a new George Lucas film look like a cheap gimic trick and can take out our enemeies whole sale if need be.
Kruschev and Mao Tse-Tung reportedly boasted that the West would sell them the rope that they would then use to hang the West. Like fools, we've sold them yards of rope. Hopefully we've invented something quite clever to make this proverbial rope obsolete and useless.
The current poltiically correct culture would have us idiotically believe the vacuous notion that our enemies share our same value system and that there is no need to prepare for war and so doing is provocative. But freedom has never been free--ever. Our enemeies spit on our values and would indeed hang us with the rope we've provided because of that foolish liberal sentiment that everyone is fundamentally good with that world-can-be-as-one Coca-Cola-motto philosophy.
These are most dangerous times indeed and our enemies still see power coming from the capacity to do violence.
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
-Mao Tse-Tung
Entertaing, thought-provoking, but kind of silly.......2005-07-21
"The Future of War" predicts US dominance of warfare throughout the 21st Century, as a result of US advanced technology in general and precision weaponry in particular. Their train of thought has considerable merit, and deserves reading and thoughtful attention. However, the book suffers from the same two major flaws as most books by visionaries without enough practical experience: misunderstanding of specific happenings in the past, and unlikely projections into the far future. Having been involved with US defense for 50 years, as a member of the military, as a designer and developer and advisor on US weaponry, and as an advisor on strategic, operational and tactical issues, I read this book with considerable amusement, although I do take seriously much of what it says. I shall give specifics on two failures to understand the details of the past, and then offer criticism of two of the book's projections, as examples.
Past episode #1: The 1991 precision strikes against Iraq. There is no doubt that our air strikes and land attacks in the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait were exceedingly effective, and there is no doubt that this effectiveness was largely due to our precision weaponry. However, to do precision strikes, whether with airborne munitions or ground forces, it's necessary to know what targets to attack, where they are, and what weapons are likely to be effective against a particular target. In the 1991 campaign, this effort was undertaken by the "Jeddi Knights", largely under the guidance of Col. John Warden. The key role of the "Jeddi Knights" was to establish priorities and mission profiles for which targets to strike when with what munitions, and they did this extraordinarily well. What the Friedmans obviously don't know is the amount of detailed information that was available to the "Jeddi Knights", carefully acquired over the 70 years preceding the campaign, first by the British until about 1950, and thereafter by the US military. The armed forces of major powers assume they may have to fight wars on short notice aganst opponents who have been designated shortly before by national authorities, so they invest a great deal in gathering information pertinent to how various campaigns might be conducted. In the case of Iraq, the British did very careful mapping from 1920 until about 1950, producing "ordnance" maps of higher detail and accuracy than exist even for some parts of the United States, and these were invaluable to planners. Then, starting in about 1950, when it began to seem possible that the US might someday have to fight somewhere in the Middle East, the US military carefully gathered information relevant to how a campaign might be fought, and which potential enemy targets should be candidates for destruction. These studies resided in US intelligence and military archives until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and were then used as the basis for planning the campaign.
Two examples of this. First, the destruction of certain bridges was given high priority not to impede vehicular movement, but to sever the communications cables running under the bridges; our planners knew which cables important to Iraqi Command and Control were buried too deeply to destroy easily except where they were routed under bridges, and therefore which bridges to take out to disrupt Iraqi military communications. Second, the swing by US, British and French forces far to the West, the "Hail Mary" gambit, would not have been possible in that harsh terrain unless viable routes for armor and supply vehicles were known, and the Iraqi Army either didn't know of such routes or didn't believe we could know of them. There are exactly two feasible routes, and both were used; they can both be determined in complete detail from careful study of the British Ordnance maps prepared in the 1930s, and (although I wasn't involved in the campaign planning) I had no difficulty in finding and plotting the only two feasible routes before the ground campaign began, from the good maps in my possession. I also understand why it was necessary to bring the two prototype JSTARS systems to the theatre, to detect and allow blocking of any Iraqi strike intended to sever the Tapline Road; this was also evident from the maps.
By contrast, we had no success at all in locating and destroying mobile Scud missile launchers, because they moved around with great frequency. If you don't know where something is, no precision of your weaponry, and no amount of technical sophistication or military skill, will allow you to destroy it.
Past example #2: The SAFEGUARD BMD system. The Friedmans say, on the basis of assertions by people who may or may not be experts, that SAFEGUARD was deactivated because it wouldn't work. In fact the situation was exactly the reverse, but one must know the purpose of SAFEGUARD and its mode of operation to understand what actually happened. The mission of SAFEGUARD was to prevent complete success of a Soviet counterforce first strike against our Minuteman ICBM fields, by opening a "launch window" for a retaliatory strike by the Minuteman missiles in the face of a full-scale Soviet strike. I helped to plan and design that system, and it would have done what it was intended to, although at a horrible increased toll of death and destruction, which I dreaded, but could see no alternative to in the face of rapidly increasing Soviet capability. Far more important than the fact that we knew SAFEGUARD would work was the fact that the Soviets concluded it would work; that realization brought them back to the bargainng table at the Helsinki talks, and led to the SALT I treaty, which I rejoiced about. Provisions of that treaty made SAFEGUARD unnecessary, and that's why the one completed SAFEGUARD site was deactivated and construction on the other sites was stopped.
Also on the subject of balistic missile defense, the Friedmans assert that midcourse discrimination and destruction of incoming warheads is infeasible. This is simply not true, although there is an exceedingly serious problem associated with doing it. I know three quite different ways of doing midcourse discrimintion and destruction of enemy incoming warheads, and, given that I've been out of that business for more than 10 years, I expect that other ways are known by now. The problem is that, at least for the three ways I know, one is politically unacceptable to the US Congress and the US public, one is so expensive that it's unlikely Congress would ever fund it, and the third, if fully developed, would be usable for certain other military purposes that would probably lead to a renewed arms race as our potential major opponents sought to counter it. (I was one of a small group of scientists who successfully recommended to Congress that development of that third approach be stopped, to avoid the resulting foreseeable escalation; scientists and military professionals, despite various comments in the Friedmans' book, work closely together over years and decades, and come to have considerable knowledge of each other's fields.) Whether at some future time it may become desirable to develop and deploy a BMD system that does midcourse discrimination and destruction of warheads is a political and diplomatic question to be decided by the public and its elected leaders, on which I have no insight, but it is technically feasible.
Now, turning to the future, what the Friedmans fail to understand in their glowing vision of US technology dominating future warfare, is that for every technical advance, opponents can devise at least partial countermeasures, and that therefore no amount of technology as such can determine the outcome of a campaign. The Coalition conquest of Iraq in 2003 provides an excellent example. Although large parts of the Iraqi army, and all of its top leadership, was utterly incompetent, other large parts of the Iraqi army were composed of thoroughly trained officers and enlisted men, who fully understood that if they confronted US forces nose to nose, they would be destroyed. Understanding this, very many of the best Iraqi units simply demobilized themsleves and disappeared into the civilian population as Coalition forces approached, in many cases taking their weaponry with them. One entire Iraqi division near the border with Iran totally vanished before we got to its bases; everyone from the division commander to the most junior private. Professional soldiers, even if motivated to fight, have no more desire than anyone else to be killed pointlessly in a situation where they are unable to resist effectively.
A substantial fraction of these well-trained, motivated Iraqi forces subsequently emerged as part of the resistance movement that continues in Iraq. How many of the resistance fighters come from that crowd is obviously impossible to know for sure, but my personal estimate is that about 30,000 of Saddam Hussein's best and most loyal troops and officers became part of the resistance movement. And our overwhelming superiority in all aspects of conventional warfare have been far less effective against current Iraqi resistance methods; the resistance movement seems to be gradually weakening and fragmenting, but it's a long slow process, in which our precision weapons and our advanced communications and intelligence give us far less of an advantage than they do in conventional warfare.
There are various other gaps in the Friedmans' assessment of the future. I'll mention only two of many. First, vircators, often touted as the most effective weapon of the 21st Century, have had only relatively diappointing results so far. Why? Partly because technical improvements to vircators are needed; those will surely come along in due course. Much more serious is the fact that battle damage asssessment after a vircator strike is at present almost impossible to do with any degree of accuracy, so after a target has been attacked with one or more vircators, there is no practical way to know whether the strike was successful or not.
Presumably some day we will overcome this particular problem, but it illustrates that new and potentially formidable technology may find relatively little application because of purely tactical and operational problems that arise in using it.
As my second example, I'll remark on the Friedmans' vision of US infantrymen as being in effect "cocooned" in future to protect them from the enemy's weapons. This vision ignores two serious problems. First, no "cocoon" imaginable can protect an infantryman against certain weapons such as a fuel-air bomb if the enemy knows approximately where the infantryman is. Second, and closely related, anyone with substantial experience in concealing himself in a hostile environment, including me, knows all too well that the more accoutrements one has, the harder it is to hide and not be observed. In light clothing and carrying only light personal weapons, I can disappear into the landscape almost anywhere, and move around unnoticed; burdened with excess equipment and elaborate protective clothing, only certain carefully selected spots can offer concealment. Everyone with experience in this matter knows as much as I do on this subject, so infantrymen whose lives depend on not being observed will move far more cautiously when heavily burdened than when lightly armed and lightly protected. That doesn't mean infantry should be sent into combat inadequately equipped, but it does mean that the increased effectiveness of some given number of trained infantry when provided with extra combat capability and protective equipment is far less than one might otherwise suppose.
I could cite dozens of other matters, past and projected, which the Friedmans book misunderstands or overlook, but this is enough. I'll just say that the book is an excellent source of ideas, but should be viewed with practiced skepticism.
Technological Determism.......2002-05-18
This is an extremely well written book on technological determism. It shows the development of weapon systems through centuries. And shows how these systems have been replaced by new technology.
Technological determism advocates that technology controls the development of society, and that this process is unstoppable. It is closely related to the school of realism.
Even if you disagree with technological determism, this book is valuable to understand how many strategists, politicians, scientists and generals do think.
Worthwhile, but flawed, work.......2001-08-10
In light the number of stars I have given this book, I feel I should start off be stating that there is tremendous merit in this work. The authors do a superb job of pointing out the root causes of warfare, and why it is naïve to expect that armed conflict has gone by the wayside. They then go on to point out the challenges to American global preeminence, and what needs to be done to assure it.
Specifically they look to precision-guided munitions as the key weapons of future combat, and space as its primary battleground. They make compelling arguments for each, particularly regarding the obsolescence of the primary weapons of today's Pax Americana: the tank, the strategic bomber, and the aircraft carrier. Furthermore, the completely debunk the myth of nuclear supremacy on the modern battlefield.
The problems with this book that I alluded to are twofold. First, the editing is appalling; there are numerous typos and misprints (for example, referring to a torpedo that can travel at 400 knots). While the knowledgeable reader can usually infer what the authors' intent is, editorial errors always make for a frustrating reading experience.
The second concern cuts to the heart of the book. While the authors do a superb job of defining the future battlefield, they offer very little in terms of how we get there from where we currently stand. The weapons systems they describe will almost certainly come to pass, but they neither make suggestions as to the allocation of R&D dollars, nor offer any sense of what research should receive priority. In the absence of such commentary, their bold assertions frequently seem more like dogma than scholarship. Moreover, they ignore potential doctrinal changes that might extend the service life of current weapons systems while increasing their effectiveness.
At its best, `The Future of War' is a visionary look into the future of armed conflict. The authors correctly grasp the dawning senility of the weapons currently deployed, and paint a bold picture of what the future battlefield will look like. Unfortunately, while brilliantly describing the future, they completely ignore the near to middle term. As a result, `The Future of War' while well worth reading, can only be treated as half of an equation. One must read the works of authors like Leonhard and MacGregor to truly appreciate the shape of the modern battlefield.
A must read for any military officer.......2001-08-02
This guy could be the next Clauswitz. To my knowledge, most of his theories and ideas are totally unique and represent a new field in military knowledge. The part about weapon senility is pure genius, and something anyone in a position to determine our future weapons systems MUST read. He also breaks new ground with his theories about the future of Space, long-range weapons systems, and the uselessness of nuclear weapons. This book is fascinating for anyone interested in military affairs.
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