num_pages: 330
description: They were four exceptional soldiers a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military's brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century. Theirs is a story of successes and failures of ambitions achieved and thwarted of the responsibilities and perils of command. The careers of this elite quartet show how the most powerful military force in the world entered a major war unprepared and how the Army drawing on a reservoir of talent that few thought it possessed saved itself from crushing defeat against a ruthless low-tech foe.
language: English
title: The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.