The Last Warrior
- Author Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
- Narrator Malcolm Hillgartner
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 11 hours and 56 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre History of the Americas, Military and defence strategy, Military history, Politics and government, Warfare and defence.
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What to expect
Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than that. At the Rand Corporation during its golden age in the 1950s and early 1960s, Marshall helped formulate bedrock concepts of US nuclear strategy that endure to this day; later, at the Pentagon, he pioneered the development of "net assessment"—a new analytic framework for understanding the long-term military competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the Cold War, Marshall successfully used net assessment to anticipate emerging disruptive shifts in military affairs, including the revolution in precision warfare and the rise of China as a major strategic rival of the United States.
In The Last Warrior, Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts—both former members of Marshall's staff—trace Marshall's intellectual development from his upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to his decades in Washington as an influential behind-the-scenes advisor on American defense strategy. The result is a unique insider's perspective on the changes in US strategy from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day.
Covering some of the most pivotal episodes of the last half century and peopled with some of the era's most influential figures, The Last Warrior tells Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.
Critics Review
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“Andrew Marshall mentored a series of Secretaries of Defense, beginning
Harold Brown, former Secretary of Defense
with James Schlesinger, in devising strategies for competing
successfully with global adversaries. The Last Warrior tells that story and shows how Marshall used the revolutionary concept of ‘net assessment’ to do it.” -
“A fascinating account of the life and career of one of America’s leading strategic thinkers, The Last Warrior
Mac Thornberry, member of congress
outlines much of the intellectual history of American security since
World War II, while also shining a light on the challenges we continue
to face.” -
“[A] detailed, rigorous account of
Library Journal
Marshall’s career at RAND Corporation and the Department of Defense…Informed readers of foreign policy and
specialists will find the authors’ research impressive and Marshall’s
story enlightening.” -
“A well-organized
Kirkus Reviews
biography of Andrew Marshall, the architect of the Defense Department’s
‘net assessment’ strategy since the early days of the Cold War…An elucidating
intellectual history of an influential strategic sage that few outsiders have
ever heard of.”
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