hardcover, by Stephanie Gutmann — Since its founding, Israel has become legendary for winning wars waged against it by much larger armies. But those were “conventional” conflicts where uniformed soldiers fought on clearly delineated fronts, using tanks, aircraft and artillery. Israel has not fared so well in the new wars of the twenty-first century, where key battles are fought on editorial pages and television screens, and[...]
hardcover, by Stephanie Gutmann — The Kinder, Gentler Military is a devastating critique of how and why the military-the most tradition-bound, masculine institution in the United States—spent the 1990s in a tortured attempt to reform its time-proven warrior culture into a new, politically correct value system, which is decimating morale in our armed forces. Stephanie Gutmann scouts the field—the bases, the ships,[...]