Books by Fred Kaplan
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English
review 1: Eye-opening to be sure. Kaplan really shows us how Petraeus and friends worked from the inside to change the Pentagon's perspective on "insurgencies" and 21st century warfare. This is not a book about his love life or any of that lurid affair, but about how, through education a...
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English
review 1: This book was disappointing. His thesis is that 1959 is under appreciated as a year that was pivotal in political, social, and cultural changes in America. But 1959 itself is rather random -- most of the things he describes took place over a period of years, and he would find som...