Very disappointing, and I REALLY wanted to like this book. Written by a U.S. Army soldier who (I assume) was a graduate of the Defense Information School (DINFOS) but you wouldn't know it by the quality of the writing or the editing. EVERYBODY is a dirt bag according to the author... including himself. Remarkably, he managed to find the one guy in Iraq who was beaten by Uday and enjoyed it.
You learn very little about how Public Affairs works in the Army, its role in keeping the U.S. public informed or how soldiers can communicate without using the "f-word." Neither do you learn about NCOs can create a non-threatening environment for females to work in.
The book doesn't seem to know what it's about, which makes it kind of pointless. If you are going to write an antiwar book, write an antiwar book. If you're going to write a book about what we hoped to accomplish in Iraq, then write about reconstruction in that country. And if you're going to write about how you gawked at female body parts in Qatar, there's a market for that too. But the book just never seems to have a direction or a conclusion, which makes robs it of its impact. Lots of photos, though.
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