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This book achieves excellence on several levels and offers an absorbing portrait of leadership under difficult circumstances. Author Eliot A. Cohen presents an impressive analysis of an especially important issue, the balance between civilian and military leadership, which he uses as a paradigm for leadership relations and strategy. His discussion is easily accessible to the general reader, always scholarly but never pedantic, and leaves one in a mood to find anything else this author may have written. Cohen is not afraid to defy conventional wisdom, as he does when he blames the Vietnam failure not on too much, but rather on too little, civilian meddling in military affairs. getAbstract.com finds it difficult to criticize this work, except on the grounds that it is so good, we wish there were more of it.

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Copyright © 2003 by Eliot A. Cohen

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