Ripples of Battle
Subtitle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think
Publisher: Anchor; Anchor Books
Published: October 12, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780385721943
First sentence: Throughout the fall of 2001 and early 2002, the military referents in the West for the war against the Islamic fundamentalists were the fanatical kamikazes of Okinawa of the past-their letters published in newspapers, the Pacific war recounted by columnists, and veterans of the conflict interviewed on television.