I really enjoyed Sebastian Junger's "The Perfect Storm" but this effort, "War" fell short in terms of readability and retaining my interest. I think Mr. Junger captured the tone of a combat outpost as well as the effects such a deployment have on our Soldiers.

While clearly not his intent, I think that sharing his opinions of our tactics and our strategy would have made the book more valuable. What lessons has he learned? What would he do differently or not at all? Even trivial observations / opinions would have added more meat to the story (i.e. HESCO barriers are really good or they're really lame or....)

If you go into the book with lowered expectations or at least expecting that the book has a very narrow focus, then you'll be happier with it than I.