If I can find any fault it would be the lack of a bibliography, footnotes and/or end-notes. While long ,with over six hundred pages, it never drags.
Dramatic and suspenseful it moves along at a brisk pace. military works might not understand how important that difference is, but it matters. Those who are unfamiliar with how the U.S.
The book takes a professional military viewpoint and that's significant. However the tone of the book isn't militaristic or warlike. For while one's enemies might change war doesn't. Though the Communist threat had faded by then (Fehrenbach is concerned about how the Communists are more serious than the West) I still felt like it had many lessons to teach. I first read it in 1991 when I was going through the Armor Officer Basic Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It's about a war that had ended (well at least the shooting stopped) ten years earlier. War isn't a game and it sure isn't easy-going. Fehrenbach comes down on the side of the military, but he makes a good case as to why armies can't engage in the more easy-going existence of the civilian world. Fehrenbach addresses the conflict in American society between the social liberalism that the civilian world values and the more Spartan, totalitarian world that the military prefers. This Kind Of War is an account of the military aspects of the Korean War (1950-1953) with a fair amount of social commentary to go along with it. Fehrenbach served in the Korean War as an officer in the U.S.
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