What We Need by Barrett Tillman (Book Review)

"What We Need: Extravagance and Shortage in America's Military"
by Barrett Tillman, St Paul, Minnesota, Zenith Press (MBI), St Paul, Minnesota, 2007; 254 pp.
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Every now and then MBI tries to publish a serious book. Not sure how well distributed this one was, another "surface find" at my local Public Library. About half of it is just repeating things most of us already know; The Air Force is failing to manage the future need for Airlift (Some interesting details I had not known); The F-22 and similar programs are unaffordable, yada, yada.

And there was a significant amount of coverage on the subtle problems that there really should be no excuses for five years into a major conflict. A shortage of (Small arms) range time and Ammunition?

Plus a plea for the NRA to be recognized (Encouraged?) to play it's original role in pre-training manpower in individual marksmanship skills. Kind of a contrast to the high level issues in other parts of the book, I agree, we need to revitalize the NRA and the Civilian Marksmanship Program.

OK; Say Two and a half stars.