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I've just finished We Were Soldiers, and have started The Unforgiving Minute by Mullaney.
So far, I am liking it a lot. I didn't attend USMA, but I can relate strongly to some of his indoctrination experiences and the way he writes about them in order to express them to an audience that might have no context for the military life. Its been really enjoyable to read. He makes excellent points about how shared adversity and "embracing the Suck" becomes something you truly learn to love when sharing it with other men at your side. That's something I can't ever get seem to quite get my wife to grasp the meaning of.
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the [terrorists] -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
-D. W. Brogan, The American Character
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