Critical War Theory

Between War and Peace is a project of TRADOC, the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command, and was commissioned by then-TRADOC Chief General Martin E. Dempsey, and edited by a West Point professor, Colonel Matthew Moten. In the preface to First Battles, the editors - a lieutenant colonel and a brigadier general - explained that the book was designed to test "the assumption that it makes a great deal of difference how the U.S. Army prepares in peacetime, mobilizes for war, fights its first battle, and subsequently adapts to the exigencies of combat." [...] we have produced a book that is quite different from AFB, and I felt that it should stand on its own.