This book, like most books, represents a personal vision, a personal ststement, and a personal prism through wich the author views reality.
There should be no need to justify the study of history. The past is worth studying becouse it is not dead but very much alive.
This is a history not of battles and campaigns but of the Army as an institution maintained by the nation to fight its battles and campaigns, or to deter a need to fight them.
The American Challenge is a book about the crisis of Europe. It has already had an extraordinary impact.