Monday, April 27, 2009

Back to the Latrine

A few days ago, I wrote about how happy my Battle Buddy is that he found the luxury latrine 1/4-mile from our tent. Yesterday before we left of three days of training I decided to use the indoor plumbing. I have been slowing reading an old high school edition of Les Trois Mousquetaires in French. So when I went to the facility I was an ethnically Jewish American guy in a latrine maintained by a local Arab contractor reading a French book.

War and Power: Logistics, Industry, and the Reality Behind Victory

Phillips Payson O'Brien 's War and Power is one of the most thought-provoking books on military history I have read in recent years...