In Death Ground
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  • Battle Stations!!!
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  • Great story
  • Evil bugs attack--kill, kill
In Death Ground
David Weber , and Steve White
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3 out of 5 stars A rather simple and weak unstopable force.......2007-06-24

This book takes place in a universe that was developed from the game Starfire, a wargame for the 1980's. Enough said about that, this is a review about Crusade. This book opens with a first encounter between humans and a species we'll get to know as the bugs. After the first encounter we get to see several battles involving humans (on the defensive because the bugs are coming after them) and the bugs. In reading this book I was reminded so many times of reading a book about WW III or the Eastern Front in WWII. Why do I say that, well the human's have fewer ships with high tech, and the bugs have low tech but lots of numbers. Let me correct that, not lots of numbers, but vastly superior numbers (as the Russian saying goes, Quantity has a Quality all of it's own). However rather than attaching myself to any of the characters or feeling that the battles were great descriptions of possible actions, I felt like I was wading thru a pool of molasses. Because of this I can only rate this one 3 stars. I couldn't help but feeling that both Mr. Weber and Mr. White mailed this one in. Rather than spending your time reading Crusade, read one of the Honor Harrington books or a different space opera unless you like reading about massive numbers of large ships and destroying things in a rather flat/linear fashion.

5 out of 5 stars Battle Stations!!!.......2007-02-12

What a wonderful sci-fi novel! I couldn't put it down. I haven't read any of Weber's other books and didn't realise there are prequels to In Death Ground. Nonetheless I managed effortlessly to get into the storyline.

I usually read about modern and ancient history warfare, which I now and then interrupt with a military science fiction novel. Yes, those novels which are so hard to find! At last I found a hard-core military space battle sci-fi book that is as riveting as any real-life war novel.

The book is one long action packed space battle with a myriad of different spaceships, strategies and manoeuvres that would have satisfied Alexander the Great, with battles lost and won to your heart's delight. There is very little time for mindless chatter or aimless wanderings in this space opera.

In Death Ground's inter-textual play with Heinlein's Starship Troopers works very well - from the description of the bugs and the name Bug War to the abrupt end. It even manages to drag Starship Troopers out of its sometimes dull think-too-much, do-too-little world, since the battle that never happens in Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie) has finally arrived here In Death Ground!

Lastly the book is thankfully void of over-zealous character development or any other human-interest ploys.

Really a superb book!

5 out of 5 stars A Fun Read.......2006-07-11

This book should be read with its sequel, The Shiva Option.

These books are a combination of military SF and space opera. It would be easy to outline various shortcomings, but the most important fact is that it's simply a great story. Not profound, just fun. Like a favorite movie, these are books you can enjoy more than once.

5 out of 5 stars Great story.......2006-06-27

This book is nothing short of incrediable. The story line moves along at a good pace that gives you all the information you need and with enough action to keep you from putting it down. The story is well thought out and technical aspects are simply supurb. This is a wonderful read but be warned it is addictive (and the sequel is just as good).

1 out of 5 stars Evil bugs attack--kill, kill.......2006-02-17

An exploration ship stumbles into an inhabited system. Rather than make contact, the inhabitants attack--and continue the attack into human-inhabited systems. With only a tiny fleet, the humans call for help from their homeland, and from their allies. Although they repeatedly do far more damage to the attackers than is done to them they are gradually forced back--and then the ultimate horror--the invaders turn out to be bug-like creatures who eat the people left behind on inhabited planets.

Clearly people-eating bugs must be exterminated, but the bugs seem to have enormous resources. They continue attacking even when it is clear that they're flying into destruction. Any number of no-survivors battles should leave them looking for a way to back out of the war they started, but the bugs must not think that way.

Humans and their allies continue exploring--this time, though, the bugs follow an allied scout back to a home planet of the 'Tabbies.' They kill millions--but the timely arrival of human resources and skillful fighter flying by the tabbies manages to roll back this attack. But the ultimate danger comes when the bugs find a hidden warp point in the alpha centari system--home to billions of humans and only one step from Earth itself. Good luck and skill defeat the bug probe--and counterattack seems both possible and necessary. But could the bugs be setting a trap?

Authors David Weber and Steve White continue their STARS AT WAR series with a purely military story. Huge ships battle across space. The bugs are quickly relegated to the status of evil (they eat people, after all), so there are no moral issues to worry about. With the great President Emeritus Anderson being long-dead, all politicians are stupid. Still, although they do nothing to advance the plot, there are politicians in the story--set there to say stupid things that sound vaguely like something an American liberal (pause to spit here) would say. Clearly they are stupid but they can't be genocided--not, at least, until the bugs are taken care of.

I thought that Anderson's moral issues with the proposed genocide (exocide) of an entire species was the high point of CRUSADE, the earlier novel in this series. Perhaps conservative readers gave Weber and White a hard time about going soft because there definitely were no moral discussions here. It was completely kill, kill, kill.

IN DEATH GROUND is well enough written to sustain reader interest, but the plot line is simplistic, with the usual mix of 'badguys attack in overwhelming force, but are nevertheless completely wiped out' with 'badguys get the jump on our heroes but, due to our heroes brilliance, their trap backfires and (thanks to heroic sacrifice on the part of our heroes), they are virtually wiped out.

If you want to read about fighting against overwhelming bugs, read ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card. If you want to read more nuanced military adventure, Weber's early Honor Harrington stories would be a better answer. Despite capable writing, I simply can't recommend IN DEATH GROUND.
Loss of the Ground-Note: Women Writing About the Loss of Their Mothers
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5 out of 5 stars very healing anthology.......2007-07-21

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    DEATH GROUND
    Today’s American Infantry in Battle

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    3 out of 5 stars Overwritten and biased, and still somewhat worthwhile.......2007-04-08

    This book purports to instruct us on the use and usefulness of infantry on the modern battlefield. The author, a soldier himself, takes eight incidents in the decade prior to his writing (the book was published in 1999) and attempts to use them to illustrate his points. While some of the author's general concepts make sense, others are either erroneous or have been overtaken by events so that they're not quite as intelligent as they sound.

    The first problem with the whole premise of the book is the author's contention that these are serious combats. The book consists of six chapters preceded by a prologue, and followed by an epilogue. Each of these includes an action fought somewhere in the world during that decade prior to 1999. Four of them are from Operation Desert Storm/Shield; the rest include the peacekeeping operations in Haiti and Liberia, the invasion of Panama, and of course the battle of Mogadishu. Of these, only Mogadishu approaches the author's premise of a very very dangerous battlefield where only the strong survive. In all of the other actions, there were very few casualties, if any.

    The author has some strange biases, also. He asserts, in the epilogue, that the day of the armored force has passed, and says that in the last five decades the armored forces of the Army have done "four days honest work." While the emphasis in Army doctrine might be away from large armored formations for the foreseeable future, it's hard to reconcile this with his advocacy of old-fashioned paratroopers, when the army seems so reluctant to actually drop them as intended for fear of casualties in the drop. By my count, actual airdrops have happened twice in combat since the end of World War II (once in Korea, and once in Viet Nam--the latter is generally considered to have been a nostalgia thing). You could argue that they're at least as obsolescent as the armored forces, and more dangerous to train.

    Then there's the issue of his writing style. The author wants you to know that he's a trooper, that he knows the lingo, that he's as tough as the men he commands. So helicopters don't crash, they merge with the terrain contours in a terminal fashion. Everything's hyperbole and anecdote, simile and metaphor. After three hundred pages of this you're reading the individual letters on the page as purple, because the prose certainly is (if what I just wrote is purple too, explain it away as self-defense).

    Lastly, there's the problem of predictions. Every book like this has a final section where the author tells you what he thinks about the issues he's discussed. The epilogue, which starts out talking about the fight at Khafji, winds up being a discussion of the place of infantry on the modern battlefield. The author predictably (and probably properly) bemoans the lack of funding for the modern military, and what that does to the units and the way they fight. He makes some predictions and prognostications, some of which are worthwhile. Unfortunately, most of them aren't, and a couple are just wrong. For one thing, he seems to think that the army had no chance of getting a new, lighter vehicle than the Bradley IFV. Right now they have a hundred or so Stryker Combat Vehicles in combat: they're half the weight of a Bradley, and have proven versatile and very effective. The army is planning on mounting a considerable number of brigades on these vehicles. The author also thinks that the emphasis on conventional armor and its supporting arms is wasted, or at least partially so. The use armor during the conventional phase of the fighting in Iraq in 2003, proved that just because the enemy doesn't have tanks doesn't mean they aren't useful. They reduce casualties by a large factor, and are very effective.

    The individual actions the author describes do show some interesting points, some of which the author correctly interprets, and some of which he seems to ignore. For one thing, the author advocates the disbanding of most of the armored force in the US army--but in the chapter on Mogadishu, he makes it clear that US army tanks would have made the fight in the city a whole lot easier on the troops trying to rescue Task Force Ranger. Sometimes you get the idea he's trying to have it both ways.

    I have to say I didn't enjoy this book. The writing style isn't conducive to continuous reading, the examples don't always lead to the conclusions the author draws, and some of his statements are just wrong-headed. At several points he opines that only regular troops are capable of combat on the modern battlefield. The deployment of National Guard troops to Iraq has shown that not to be true. He also asserts that all regular army troops these days are elite, then goes on to tell you that the Marines, Rangers, and Special Forces are even *more* elite. My mother used to know a guy who would say something outrageous to see if everyone was paying attention, like "All children are above average intelligence." You almost get the idea that Bolger's doing the same thing, except for with him there's no irony in what he is saying: he really believes it.

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent Analysis of a Complex Subject.......2003-03-29

    As a former Marine I have always carried the opinion (perhaps biased) that the Army was archaic and hopeless in its approach to modern warfare, that it clung too stubbornly to a method of combat more fitting a full-scale European Theatre conflict (ala the Soviet Union).

    Col. Bolger has certainly enlightened me to the Army's ability to handle modern warfare. Anyone with any understanding of the paradigm shifts which have occurred following the end of the Cold War will understand and appreciate this book. Anyone seeking a better understanding of how the military is prepared to deal with the paradigm shifts which have occurred following the end of the Cold War will understand and appreciate this book.

    Those who long for the strategy & tactics of the Cold War period and wish the world wouldn't change will have little appreciation for this book. Those who can't see beyond pride in their current units to face reality will have little appreciation for this book.

    I hope Army hard-liners will take this analysis to heart.

    I would share a fighting hole with Col.Bolger. That's a statement I make about few people.

    1 out of 5 stars Little to no analysis.......2002-04-29

    This book showed great promise...an indepth look at the American Infantry on today's battlefield. As an Infantry officer on active duty I was very disappointed. I have three major complaints with this book. First, it's super cheesy and hard to take seriously. For example,"Like lightning and thunder, hard fliers and hard grunts together bring down the storm." Very colorful language, but not academic in the least.
    Second, this book has little to no in-depth analysis. The author had a great opportunity to demonstrate lessons that we continue to learn across the spectrum of Infantry operations. Instead, he simply retold a few fairy tale versions of modern battle. No origional thought!
    Third, this book is overly simplistic to the point of being inaccurate. For example, on page 207 the author describes the Ranger action in Mogadishu on 3 Oct 93. He states that MSG Gordon and SFC Shugart were the task force "final reserve." This is so simplified and dumbed down that its really not an accurate portraite of events.
    The only reason I finished this book is because I am stuborn. I consider reading it a waste of my time.

    1 out of 5 stars Elitist Contempt Drips from Almost Every Page.......2001-03-05

    Before I started this book, I was a great fan of Daniel Bolger's and had read all his previous books. Based upon his excellent earlier works of both fiction and non-fiction, I felt that Bolger was both a talented professional soldier and a gifted writer. Death Ground changed that impression. This book is a polemical piece with elitist contempt virtually dripping from its pages. Nor are there any great lessons to be learned here.

    Organizationally, the book has seven chapters that focus on different types of US infantry units involved in recent operations. The vignettes include Panama (1989), Desert Storm (1991), Somalia (1993), Haiti (1994) and Liberia (1996). With the exception of the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, all these tactical vignettes are company or smaller size actions. Each chapter is used to highlight the unique characteristics of that type of unit. According to Bolger, there are approximately 100,000 US infantry in 91 Regular Army and Marine battalions. Actually, using his tables of organization, the number is 69,189 and that includes non-infantry personnel in those units.

    Only regular US Army and Marine units are included in the survey of modern American infantry. Bolger begins in the first chapter by contemptuously dismissing the Army National Guard and Reserve infantry units; "these part-time warriors ...are not manned, equipped, trained, disciplined, or led to the standards of the Regulars. Perhaps in the days when preparing for battle meant grabbing a squirrel gun off the mantel and learning a few parade-ground evolutions, the armed forces could get by with that caliber of soldier... Close combat demands professionals..." Aside from the obvious insult to the over 100 Army National Guard infantry battalions who are treated as pathetic sub-humans, Bolger ignores the fact that the tough Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese infantry who gave us so much trouble in 1950-1975 were conscripts with no special training and usually limited combat experience. The Somali militiamen who came close to annihilating Task Force Ranger were not well-trained professionals, merely motivated amateurs. In fact, when Bolger quips about the National Guard that, "for a variety of good reasons, those happy warriors had not been called to federal service," he ignores the deployment of Army National Guard infantry to the Sinai, Croatia and Bosnia in recent years.

    Bolger then moves on to heap derision on the Military Intelligence Community. Citing the 101st Airborne air assault into Iraq in February 1991, Bolger claims that MI analysts who forecast little or no Iraqi resistance on the Landing Zone "could afford to be smug". Bolger ignores the fact that US commanders had the most thorough intelligence picture of an enemy that any army has had in history and wisecracks, "intelligence expertise be damned". In a typical swipe, Bolger claims that "intell analysts work in air-conditioned trailers; they don't patrol." False. I served as a battalion, brigade and division intelligence officer in a light infantry division and we had no "air-conditioned trailers" - we worked off the ubiquitous Humvees liked everybody else. And when not engaged in intelligence activities, MI soldiers must engage in local security which includes patrolling.

    Bolger's next target is the armor community, lamenting that the mechanized infantry battalions are "an endangered species" because they are "yoked to a corpse, the US Army's heavy armored force." Bolger insultingly claims, "the combat arm of decision excels at waging yesterday's war. Armor's time has passed...American armor has contributed exactly four days of honest work in the last five decades." Bolger suggests that a few tanks should be retained for infantry support work, but the vast majority should be retired. This blatantly biased view ignores the valuable contributions that US tankers made in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, as well as maintaining the peace along the Inter-German Border in the Cold War.

    Throughout the book, Bolger makes constant chest-thumping assertions that "every active battalion is an elite body" and that only Regulars can handle infantry combat. American draftees from earlier wars are derided as lacking intelligence and motivation (World War Two veterans should also be insulted by this book); Bolger claims they were unwilling to close with the enemy. Wasn't one of the greatest American infantrymen of all time, Sergeant Alvin York, a mere draftee with no special training? How many West Point Ranger School graduates have single-handedly eliminated 157 enemy soldiers and 35 machineguns? Check the other Medal of Honor winners from 1917-1972; not many "professionals" in that elite group.

    This bad book ends with some truly awful conclusions. Bolger anticipates that the 91 current Regular battalions will further shrink but become even more elite as they "merge" with the Special Operations Community. He forecasts a bright future for the Marines and Rangers, less bright for the airborne/air assault community and virtually none for the light and mechanized units. That only makes sense if you anticipate military operations that only last a few days or weeks, but not well-suited to more drawn-out campaigns. Bolger makes incredibly broad generalizations about the future using only his examples from 1989-1996. For somebody with a PhD in Military History, Bolger shows a great deal of ignorance for that subject. American and British professional soldiers in the Nineteenth Century adapted to frontier warfare, but they never lost sight of the true mission, which was preparation for the Big One, as Bolger puts it. Bolger is correct in pointing out the obvious that there will be more wars, but probably incorrect in forecasting that the next decade will look like the previous one. They rarely do. Should we become involved in a major, long-term conflict in Asia or Latin America - distinct possibilities in the next decade - then a small, elitist US military will not suffice as a deterrent. This book should not be on anyone's professional reading list.

    5 out of 5 stars Where has all the U.S. Infantry gone?.......2000-08-10

    Colonel Bolger's book is an urgent read; in it he describes the "death ground" that U.S. policy makers are reluctant to send troops into and this is evaporating our infantry into a future geostrategic policy defeat. His conclusion is chilling---we might have the finest infantrymen of all time but there may not be ENOUGH to decide the issue. He describes the basic types of Infantry--Airborne, Air Assault, Mechanized, Light, Special Operations and marine and with unmatched understanding explains their attributes and why they are so vitally needed. If you are a military professional you need to read these description to better understand the technotactical aspects of war and diminish the silly chest-thumping of one's branch/MOS/service. But when you can mentally count the number of Infantry Battalions available to America--a nation of 270,000,000; a surge of adrenaline shoots through you as you realize that America is increasingly relying on a military that thinks precision guided weaponry from aircraft or sea platforms will decide the issue. As Bolger points out using real world combat examples, against a resilient foe like North Vietnam, this firepower-- even steered by skilled infantry on the ground may not be enough. It certainly wasn't in 1975 when communists over-ran South Vietnam while we had total Air/Sea superiority and were powerless to stop them.

    The point of his book is we need more and better Infantry modeled on an improved Airborne/Air Assault model with light armored fighting vehicles to control the "death ground" and control the peace. The current U.S. Army transformation underway hopefully will achieve this revolution so we can dominate the "death ground" in the future and not dangerously over-rely on stand-off munitions.

    Colonel Bolger is one of the courageous military thinkers/doers in uniform today "on point" for America, and this, his latest work builds on his technotactical oddysey begun with his masterpiece, "Dragons at War", through "The Battle for Hunger Hill" and many other books. If you read his books, you will vicariously experience his "learning curve" and have a "coup d-oeil" an awakening when you see the entirety of today's battlefield problem at a glance. All of his books should be required reading by ALL U.S. Army Soldiers of all ranks, and the Army would be wise to encourage this revolution in tactical thinking by rewarding her men with promotion point credits for questions answered correctly derived from the text.

    Airborne, Colonel Bolger!
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        Carver supervised the most recent round of digging at Sutton Hoo (the full excavation report is due out in 1999). This book seeks to present the new work plus all past work in a short book for a broad audience.

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