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Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History (review)

Well researched and clearly written, McKenney’s book does a superb job of explaining how evolving complex technology and doctrine interacted with each other and with the economic and political constraints of any given period to produce the resulting organizational structure. Throughout the volume she makes only one or two errors when discussing highly technical points. In the description on page 152 of the advances in fire direction procedures between the two World Wars, for example, she gives a definition for the gunnery element called Site that is really the definition for Vertical Interval, which itself is used in the computation of Site. That, however, is a point of detail that would be all but lost to anyone but an experienced fire direction officer. This book is a must for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of American military organization and doctrine.