Pawns; The Plight of the Citizen-Soldier

Nixon commissioned Barnes to be part of the process of a total overhall of the military. But what he came back with didn't please the people such as Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney who were already infesting the US military establishment: Barnes recommended moving the US military towards the original citizen soldier model and the conception of it, in imitation of the Swiss militia, that the Founders had, but modernized and higher tech. It's a moving and irresistable book, I wish I'd kept my paperback copy since it's so rare now. I don't think any of Barnes' later books were more important or better at all.