Taking Stock

Authors

James B. Stockdale

Abstract

In my frantic rush to catch up on the eight years of American history that I missed, I am often appalled by the studied, analytic approach to warfare taken by so many of the educated, well-intentioned individuals who directed our war in Vietnam. If my understanding of their reasoning is to remain lacking, so much the better. For he who supports the position that warfare and warriors are just other things to which the rational concepts of business and economics apply is missing the mark.

Recommended Citation

Stockdale, James B. (1979) "Taking Stock," Naval War College Review: Vol. 32: No. 2, Article 1.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol32/iss2/1