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Tip of the Spear Audiobook by G. J. Michaels
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Title: Tip of the Spear
Subtitle: US Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War
Author: G. J. Michaels
Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-01-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
Images of U.S. Marines assaulting Pacific beaches in World War II have stereotyped the service's roles and personnel for more than 50 years. This frank firsthand account of Marines sweeping over sands of a different sort in fast armored vehicles retires that popular legend and recasts the Corps as the modern, professional fighting force it was in Desert Storm. Battling a savage environment; an unknown enemy brandishing threats of nuclear, gas, and biological attacks; and a host of technological and tactical snafus, Alpha Company of the 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion pushed forward at the "tip of the spear" past burning oil fields, hundreds of Iraqi tanks and vehicles, and heartrending friendly casualties to help liberate Kuwait City and drive the Iraqis back to Baghdad. Here G. J. Michaels, a section leader and vehicle commander, provides a vivid, personal chronicle of events as they unfolded. Michaels further draws on his 13 years of LAV experience to examine lessons learned from the war as well as its controversies, including the confusion over use of the LAV as both recon scout and infantry support and the lack of effective identification/friend-or-foe systems.
Members Reviews:
Compelling tale of tactics and leadership
Any additional comments?
This is a great study of company- and platoon-level leadership in the USMC, but there is plenty of action (and a little humour). There are real lessons to be learned that can be applied in all walks of life, not just the military. Listening to it for the third time, and still learning something new. The narration could be a little more low-key for my liking, but given the subject matter (Marines at war) it is probably appropriate. Recommended for historians, wargamers and modellers.
Interesting but a bit bland at times.
An interesting point of view, the reader's voice was a bit bland which didn't help the bland story.
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Title: Tip of the Spear
Subtitle: US Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War
Author: G. J. Michaels
Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-01-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
Images of U.S. Marines assaulting Pacific beaches in World War II have stereotyped the service's roles and personnel for more than 50 years. This frank firsthand account of Marines sweeping over sands of a different sort in fast armored vehicles retires that popular legend and recasts the Corps as the modern, professional fighting force it was in Desert Storm. Battling a savage environment; an unknown enemy brandishing threats of nuclear, gas, and biological attacks; and a host of technological and tactical snafus, Alpha Company of the 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion pushed forward at the "tip of the spear" past burning oil fields, hundreds of Iraqi tanks and vehicles, and heartrending friendly casualties to help liberate Kuwait City and drive the Iraqis back to Baghdad. Here G. J. Michaels, a section leader and vehicle commander, provides a vivid, personal chronicle of events as they unfolded. Michaels further draws on his 13 years of LAV experience to examine lessons learned from the war as well as its controversies, including the confusion over use of the LAV as both recon scout and infantry support and the lack of effective identification/friend-or-foe systems.
Members Reviews:
Compelling tale of tactics and leadership
Any additional comments?
This is a great study of company- and platoon-level leadership in the USMC, but there is plenty of action (and a little humour). There are real lessons to be learned that can be applied in all walks of life, not just the military. Listening to it for the third time, and still learning something new. The narration could be a little more low-key for my liking, but given the subject matter (Marines at war) it is probably appropriate. Recommended for historians, wargamers and modellers.
Interesting but a bit bland at times.
An interesting point of view, the reader's voice was a bit bland which didn't help the bland story.