James F. Dunnigan, Author Citadel Press $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-8065-2415-3
A leading U. S. military analyst offers a timely and useful survey of the history of special operations. Dunnigan (How to Make War; The Next War Zone; etc.) claims a history for commando missions going back to Neolithic hunting parties, and names...
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James F. Dunnigan, Author St. Martin's Press $25.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-312-14588-0
Author of the much-referenced How to Make War, Dunnigan has long had the ear of the CIA, the State Department, the Army War College and other key institutions. In recent years, moreover, he has become a familiar figure on TV, analyzing military...
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James F. Dunnigan, Author, James F. Dunningan, Author, Albert A. Nofi, With William Morrow & Company $19.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-688-08948-1
This sobering collection of informational nuggets about modern warfare provides basic facts (usually in single-paragraph format) about chemical-warfare potential in Third World countries, electronic warfare, the Asian arms race, reactive armor,...
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James F. Dunnigan, Author, Raymond M. Macedonia, With William Morrow & Company $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-12096-2
One of the bitter legacies of the Vietnam War was the breakdown in discipline, morale and fighting capability that led the U.S. military, particularly the Army, to initiate dramatic reforms in the '70s. Dunnigan, the author of How to Make War , and...
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James F. Dunnigan, Author, Albert A. Nofi, With Mradult $25 (513p) ISBN 978-0-688-08947-4
In their survey of misapplied military power in the modern era, the authors identify five ``basic bad habits'' that contribute most significantly to foul-ups in war: preparing for the wrong conflict; procuring flawed weaponry; the misuse of military
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James F. Dunnigan, Author, Albert A. Nofi, With William Morrow & Company $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-688-12235-5
This book is only partly about ``dirty little secrets''; it is mostly a collection of unfamiliar information about the war, presented in some 300 briefs. Typical of the entries in these entertaining pages is a succinct account of the German ``counter
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James F. Dunnigan, Author, Albert A. Nofi, With William Morrow & Company $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-688-12236-2
By the authors of Dirty Little Secrets, this useful compendium argues that deception is the soldier's most potent weapon. The book's short entries reveal how military leaders from Ramses II to Saddam Hussein have made use of concealment, camouflage,
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James F. Dunnigan, Author, Albert A. Nofi, With William Morrow & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-05290-4
Dunnigan and Nofi (Dirty Little Secrets) have put together a reference book about the Pacific theater that WWII buffs will find handy. In a succinct, breezy style (one chapter is titled ``The Boring Stuff,'' another ``The Really Important Stuff''),...
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James F. Dunnigan, Author, Austin Bay, With William Morrow & Company $20 (512p) ISBN 978-0-688-11034-5
By the authors of A Quick and Dirty Guide to War , this in-depth yet succinct account of the causes of the Persian Gulf war and how it was fought is of great interest. In their analysis of the 42-day air campaign (``Never in the history of warfare...
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James F. Dunnigan, Author, Daniel Masterson, With St. Martin's Press $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-17061-5
The business-as-war metaphor has become trite, and books that talk about what executives can learn from warriors are now cliched. Government military adviser Dunnigan and software executive Masterson point out here that military leaders spend little
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