A word from our newest contributing writer, NJDT:

Since the husband and I are obviously aren't reading enough non-fiction these days, a friend is giving us some help:

"The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece" by Victor Davis Hanson.

It's a fascinating book that addresses how Greeks fought, and how that fighting has created a Western Way of War. The book argues that the Western Way of War has left us with a "burdensome legacy: a presumption that battle under any guise other than a no-nonsense, head-to-head confrontation between sober enemies is or should be unpalatable." Thus War is the battle on the field by hostile powers subscribing to the rules of war. Unfortunately we, the West, have become so good at this type of war that no power is willing to fight us in the Western Way. Instead our success has created an enemy who chooses irregular war--the guerrilla, the terrorist. And we have perhaps ended war as we like it.

If you decide to read this book. Reader beware. You will spend 200 pages reading about the terrifying experience of hoplite battles.