Warfighting | 
 enlarge | Author: U. S. Marine Corps Staff
Publisher: Doubleday Business
Category: Book
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0385478348
Dewey Decimal Number: 651
EAN: 9780385478342
ASIN: 0385478348
Publication Date: May 1, 1995
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Condition: Underlining and page edges toning due to paper quality, else near fine. Not ex-library. No remainder (overstock) marks. Paperback is solid, crisp, clean, and tight. No creases. Each book is shipped in an envelope with a sturdy inner package made out of clean new cardboard, cut to fit the book. I buy and sell used books which may have been owned by smokers. Reminder: If you need that book fast, please use expedited mail. Standard (media) mail can take up to two weeks depending on the distance, especially during holidays. Easy return policy.
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Warfighting is an authenticAmerican philosophy of action that will thrill themillions of fans of SunTzu's The Art ofWar and Musashi's T he Book ofFive Rings. This modern classic ofstrategy and philosophy is the quintessential guide toprevailing in competitive situations, be it war,work, play, or dailyliving.
Sometimes life is war and sometimes businessis war and sometimes you need to call in theMarines. Over the past two hundred years, the Marineshave developed a reputation for getting the jobdone-fearlessly, boldly, and taking no prisoners.What better role model for the hidden warriors inourselves? What better advice to call on when thestakes are high and sensitivity just isn't goingto work? Written in 1989 as a philosophical andstrategic guide-book for the US. Marine Corps,Warfighting is a worthy successorto SunTzu's The Art Of War.With clarity, brevity, and wisdom, it describes thebasic forces at work in every competitive situationwhether on the field of battle, in the boardroom,or in the courtroom. With twentieth-centurytechnology and its emphasis on speed and versatility,the rules of war and competition have changed.Warfighting's exploration ofmaneuver warfare takes readers beyond Sun Tzu's classiclessons and provides them a more thoroughunderstanding of what it takes to fight and win in themodern world. Currency's edition ofWarfighting features interviews with famousformer Marines including F. Lee Bailey, Ed McMahon,and Donald Regan. They tell how they have used theMarine Corps' battle strategies of strength andstraightforwardness as their secret weapons in everyconfrontation, whether at a corporate,departmental. or personal level.
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 Too general November 15, 2008
I realize that this is standard reading for the USMC, but it is billed as a tome for the civilian as well. I found it a bit too general for tactics, both for personal protection, as well as for law enforcement. OK as a general overview of battlefield/global warfare, but not easily adapted to other uses.
Warfighting: on the battlefield and in the business arena November 10, 2008
Warfighting has a very rare characteristic for a book: it depictes much more than it expresses across its pages.
I'm a former Alumnus of the most prestigious Italian Military School (Nunziatella, est. 1787), and in a sense a bit of someone with the military gene inside, having had my grand-grandfather in the Army and my father in the Air Force.
Presently I'm a manager involved in the medical field, working for one of the top pharma companies worldwide.
Looking at this book with both types of spectacles, I found a very remarkable piece of work, which deserved a very special place in my library, side to side with groundbreaking books like "The Prince" by Machiavelli, "The art of war" by Sun Tzu and "About war" by von Clausewitz.
Warfighting depicts the operating modalities of a recognized military Corp, the US Marines, and gives precious insights to commanders, for example about how leveraging skills and manouvering when fighting against a numerically stronger adversary.
When simply substituting the words "officer" or "commander" in the text with "manager", Warfighting becomes a leading-edge manual about ways of conducting business in the modern world, by lean, mobile and highly professional organizations more than by the old-style molochs.
Only tens of pages, dense of significance, something you will never forget.
Amazing.
Buy a copy for the office, lend it to everyone. September 16, 2008
Good book to instill leadership qualities in your workforce. This should be the basis for required college course in all business degree programs.
Winning the Peace after Winning the War July 22, 2008
If you're into winning any sort of competition, not just warfare, this is an excellent book to read, concise and to the point. You can read it in a few hours and be forever changed by it. My only criticism is that, judging from the endnotes, it leans a bit too much on Carl von Clausewitz and too little on modern thinkers such as John Boyd, a USAF fighter pilot whose impact on Marine Corps tactics is considerable and widely acknowledged. As the disasters of subsequent German history would demonstrate, war is not, as Clausewitz believed, diplomacy taken to a new level. Wars are much more costly and difficult to extract oneself from than a conference in Geneva.
Also keep in mind that it's not enough to win a war. You also need to win the peace that follows. During World War I and for several years afterward there was a fierce debate over how to make a peace that would last. Pacifists thought the world would come to learn that wars don't pay, an idea so absurd no one mentions it today. Internationalists thought the League of Nations could keep the peace, even though it soon failed its first test, a war between Poland and Russia that immediately followed the war. Militarists, a group little seen immediately after such a bloody war, continued to insist on the importance of bigger and bigger battleships. Even Churchill, although he later regretted it, thought for a time that disarmament would work.
In retrospect, there was only a few who got it right and the one who got it right the best was a popular English writer, G. K. Chesterton. In 1932 he would warn that Germany was going to find itself a dictator and that the next war would break out over a border dispute between Germany and Poland, precisely what happened in 1939.
If you want to win a war, read this book. If you want to learn how one war can be used to prevent the next war, read Chesterton, who bluntly wrote in 1917 that, "Peace without victory is war without excuse." Chesterton also gave some of the most telling arguments against pacifism ever put into print, noting that: "the real point against the cause of Pacifism is that it is not a cause at all, but only a weakening of all causes. It does not announce any aim; it only announces that it will never use certain means in pursuing any aim. It does not define its goal; it only defines a stopping-place, beyond which nobody must go in the search for any goal."
--Michael W. Perry, Editor of Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II
Warfighting on land, sea, air -- and business June 30, 2008
Elegant in its simplicity, powerful and profound in its application -- this is a superb, practical primer on leadership.
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