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This is history at its very best: properly raising the questions that we most want to have answered . . . . For all its learning - technical, historical, cultural - this book is always clear, vivid, and insightful. In short, great reading. --StrategyPage Gordon provides a convincing argument that leadership personalities, acceptance of risk, and how a force conceptualizes their next conflict -- and trains towards it -- can make or break the most formidable of forces. --War on the Rocks

This is history at its very best: properly raising the questions that we most want to have answered . . . . For all its learning - technical, historical, cultural - this book is always clear, vivid, and insightful. In short, great reading. --StrategyPage

This is history at its very best: properly raising the questions that we most want to have answered . . . . For all its learning - technical, historical, cultural - this book is always clear, vivid, and insightful. In short, great reading. --StrategyPage Gordon provides a convincing argument that leadership personalities, acceptance of risk, and how a force conceptualizes their next conflict -- and trains towards it -- can make or break the most formidable of forces. --War on the Rocks

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Andrew Gordon was the Class of '57 Distinguished Chair of Naval Heritage at the U.S. Naval Academy from 2007-09. He has a PhD in war studies and is the author of British Sea Power and Procurement between the Wars an acclaimed exploration of naval policy and administration in the 1920s and 1930s.

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