books by Robert D. Kaplan     books:       Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus47 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2001 interesting analysis over traveller's tales Robert Kaplan doesn't travel first class, he keeps his ear to the ground, and he pays attention to details. Unlike most of our leaders, he knows his history and doesn't believe it's "bunk". He may like to use the words "national character" where I would use "culture", but if you read this brilliant book you'll see he's talking about the same thing. Kaplan cannot be an expert on every place he ...             Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos82 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2003 OUTSTANDING! I read Mr. Kaplan's book in 2004 on a flight to the west coast---then turned to the first page and re-read on the return flight---it's that good. Mr. Kaplan takes a realistic view of the world as it is, using history as a guide. This book would be ideal for someone new to strategy (strateegery) or an old hand. The author connects the dots and makes clear that we should pay more attention to what ...             Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground (Vintage ...17 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2008 Bulletins from the front The book which preceded Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts (Imperial Grunts) was an informative and touching collection of snapshots of service men and women stationed on the edges of America's military map. As of this writing, I haven't finished Hog Pilots, but it's clearly cut from the same cloth. I'm profoundly grateful for the specific individuals mentioned in these books as well as their un-named ...             The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite18 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Free Press, 1993 American Diplomats in the Middle East I approached this book with caution. While I admire Kaplan's writing skills, I consider him -- fairly or unfairly -- as a troglodytic neo-con, one of these people who have a lot more faith in the efficacy of U.S. imposed military solutions to international problems than I do. This book looks at the rise and fall of a group of American diplomats who devoted their careers to the difficult job ...             The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy62 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Peter Smith Pub Inc, 2001 wow! how can someone possibly accumulate, sort, and process so much information? Robert Kaplan is my favorite non-fiction writer. I have read almost everything he has written. This book was the first book of his that I read -- it prompted me to read many more. This author is absolutely brilliant in processing information, making relationships among trends, and communicating them to others. He's also brilliant at survival because he goes to places few would even imagine ...             BALKAN GHOSTS: A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY120 reviews ROBERT D. KAPLAN PICADOR, 1994 A (GOOD) BOOK WHICH BROUGHT BACK (BAD) MEMORIES. Wow ! Robert D. Kaplan brought me back to the Romania I left ages ago: personality cult, the "Iron Guard," fear of your neighbor, food and other shortages, "Securitate" caused paranoia, political corruption and graft, Transnistria and local Holocausts, competent and incompetent kings, submissive and non-submissive queens, pro-Nazi and pro-Communist dictatorships etc., etc. Even long forgotten ...             An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future48 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 1999 Understanding America Kaplan has finally applied his great talents of digging into details and deriving trends to America. This book helps understand at least some parts of the soul of America, undiluted by media hype and political perspectives. His description of the decline of inner cities is moving. And the rise of gated communities is haunting. I particularly liked his description and analysis of the Mexican ...             The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War74 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2001 Kaplan has seen the Future and it is Dark and does not Work Few books will set the hair on fire and make us stand to attention as will this book. In very much the same vein as Amy Chua's "The World on Fire," Kaplan too has seen the future: and it is dark and does not work. Having traveled across Africa myself, I can attest first hand to the fact that much of what he says is not hyperbole but is the "cold-blooded truth." As but one example, when I ...             Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan23 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2001 A first rate book on Afghanistan Kaplan is an American journalist who made several trips into Afghanistan during the time that the Soviet Union had occupied Afghanistan and was intent on turning Afghanistan into a communist country. In his trips, Kaplan experienced and describes the life common to all mountain peoples, the cruelty and gruesomeness of war especially in its counter-insurgency edition, and the traditions of the ...             Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground83 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Random House, 2005 370 pages of thrill Hectic read, absorbing, masterfully told. This is one writer i am going to follow from now on. Whatever you think you are not going to go bored reading his stories. I was happily surprised to notice his lack of arrogance -as one would expect to find from a reporter among this class of American heroes. The stars are the real soldiers, the military. Kaplan is there alright, but in the background. ...             The National Interest; Special Issue, Thanksgiving 2001 (Number 65-S) James Schlesinger, Eliot A. Cohen, ... The National Interest, Inc., 2001 120 pp. Contents include: Cohen, "A Strange War"; Schlesinger, "A Test by Terrorism"; Harries, Owen, "An End to Nonsense"; Simes, "What War Means"; Bremer, "A New Strategy"; Feldstein, "Achieving Oil Security"; Sirrs, "Afghan Mythologies"; Kux, "The Pakistani Pivot"; more.             Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese4 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2005 Beautiful travel writing based on extensive historical research! As in "Balkan Ghosts," Kaplan writes with great clarity and intelligence, weaving a fine travel narrative founded on extensive historical research. He writes with a unique and creative eye, and tends to focus on important yet little-known locales. He philosophizes quite a bit, but it is an intriguing, pleasurable philosophy. The following quote from his section on Greece crystallizes for me the ...             Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece6 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Random House, 2004 A Landscape Companion Robert D Kaplan's latest book, "Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece," is written in the tradition of what was known in the 1930's as "landscape companions." The most well-known practitioners of this lost art were Robert Byron, David Talbot Rice, Lawrence Durrell, and Patrick Leigh Fermor.(They were all children of the British ...             Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts unabridged library edition Robert D. Kaplan Books on Tape, 2007 From the point of view of the troops. Important audiobook. Shipped daily.             Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea11 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2003 more relevant than ever I have enjoyed reading a half-dozen books by Robert Kaplan, a journalist who writes about foreign affairs for the Atlantic Monthly, and this one was no exception. Although some critics consider Kaplan's analyses as overly pessimistic, most give him high praise for his skill in combining first person travel narrative, history, geo-political analysis, and a street-level view of what is unfolding in ...             Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground Robert D. Kaplan Books On Tape, Inc., 2005             THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: A JOURNEY AT THE DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY ROBERT D. KAPLAN PAPERMAC, 1997             Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground--Collector's and ... Robert D. Kaplan Book on CD, 2007 Collector's and Library Edition titles are packaged in durable vinyl binding that will ensure lasting value and protection for your audiobook. So whether you use it once or loan it out to a friend, you need not worry about rips, tears, or accidental drops. ;; In this extraordinary audiobook, Robert D. Kaplan lets listeners experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground. HOG PILOTS, BLUE WATER GRUNTS ...              search for books afghanistan, american, arabists, cambodia, caucasus, collector, dalmatia, departures, eastward, ethiopia, frontiers, imperial, interest, landscape, leadership, mediterranean, military, national, pakistan, peloponnese, pleasures, politics, shattering, soldiers, surrender, thanksgiving, turkmenistan, unabridged, warriors, wilderness books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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