"Our outmoded military establishment - which failed for years in Vietnam, failed again in the Iran rescue attempt, left the Marines vulnerable in Beirut, and continues to fail silently in providing effective military power at tolerable cost - is in need of drastic, fundamental reform. So argues the nation's most incisive military expert, Edward N. Luttwak, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, author of several books on military strategy and history, and consultant to armies in the field."--Book Flap.