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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Coleman", sorted by average review score:
Middle Earth Role Playing (Middle Earth Game Rules, Intermediate Fantasy Role Playing, Stock No. 8000)
Published in Paperback by Iron Crown Enterprises (July, 1987)
Authors: S. Coleman Charlton and John D. Ruemmler
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Excellent, detailed roleplaying in Tolkien's vast realm
I love this system, it captures the flavor of Tolkien while making for an efficient roleplaying system. Great for fans of Tolkien, even if they aren't interested in roleplaying. The supplements for this game are some of the best RPG supplements I've seen. Loads of fun!

This is my favorite RPG system, a complete masterpiece!
This is one of the most comprehensive and realistic RPG systems I've encountered. I love it, and not just because it lets you adventure in the amazing realms of Middle-earth. The system is detailed and difficult to get to grips with at first but it is certainly worth the effort.

for a single world based roleplaying game it is the best
tolkien middle-earth will coming alive for you if you enjoy roleplaying games... you'll love it....

Nine Keys to Effective Small Group Leadership: How Lay Leaders Can Establish Dynamic & Healthy Cells, Classes or Teams
Published in Paperback by Kingdom Publishing (June, 2001)
Authors: Carl George, Warren Bird, and Robert E. Coleman
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Nine Keys More than enough
Carl George effectively communicates the essential basics. This book does a good job of highlighting the difference between being a facilitator of small group time and being a leader (someone who is a disciple-maker). I have used this book as the main text for training small group leaders. It provides great material for interactive discussion and presenting a wholistic picture of all that small groups can be.

Best book on Small Groups
The best two things about this book are: 1) it helps the small group leader coordinate with the pastor, and 2) it includes shepherding, building community, discipleship and evangelism as part of the small group experience. It is the best balanced book available today!

This is the book on small groups that I hand out to pastors
I am a small-groups person. I have been in one small group or another, often as a leader, almost continually, for the past 30 years. I believe small groups are just about the most important aspect of a church's life.

I have read many books on this, gone to many seminars. There is a lot of good material on this topic.

But in my present role as a church consultant, this is the book on small groups that I hand to pastors who are wanting to know how to grow a small group ministry or how to better equip their small group leaders.

Why? As George explains in this book, most church small groups do a good job of promoting nurture and fellowship, but most stop there. George believes an effective small group should perform three basic functions, not just nurture. In addition to nurture, he believes small groups should be effectively engaged in small-group-based evangelism (George says that in any given year, only one small group in four does any evangelism), and he thinks that small groups should constantly be training small group leaders through apprenticeship. I agree that a small group needs all three functions. And so I use this book as the entry point for someone who is new to these ideas about small group life.

After this introduction, I point churches to further training or more in-depth printed materials about various aspects of this approach to small groups, but in my opinion, there's not a better starting point than this one.

Ornette Coleman: His Life and Music
Published in Paperback by Berkeley Hills Books (August, 1999)
Authors: Peter Niklas Wilson and Pat Metheny
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WOW! Want to learn about Ornette? Here is your guide.
Simply wonderful. I enjoyed every page of this book and could not wait for the next. Being a huge fan of Ornette's, this was the first attempt of approaching literature based upon him. Forever waiting for his yet to be published (and probably written) book of Harmolodics, I could wait anymore and this book ensured me I shouldn't have.

For the detailed Discography
This is a great little book on Coleman. I wish the bio section at the beginning was more detailed (it states that a more representative bio has been written though it appears to be out of print). The section on Coleman's Harmolodic system was very interesting and written in a way that someone with limited knowledge of music theory (i.e. me) could comprehend. The write ups regarding all of Coleman's recordings were fascinating. Where many writers praise everything their subject touches, here the praise and criticism seems to be very objective. Sometimes writers show a preference for either Coleman's acoustic quartet or the electric Prime Time group but Wilson handles each on its own merits.

Recommended!

A Great Music Mind&Book
not only is Ornette Coleman a Musical Genius but this Book captures his Full Essence.his Music Career is Incredible.he broke alot of Ground.his Music&Timeless.this is a Must Read on one Of The Greatest Musicians Ever.

The Unexpected Teachings of Jesus: Encountering the Gospels All Over Again
Published in Hardcover by Jossey-Bass (08 January, 2002)
Author: John Coleman
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Great inspirational book with challenging questions
This book not only selects excellent inspirational scriptures but provides a great practical analysis in easy to understand language.
The analysis often takes a different slant to the usually preached message from the gospels. At the end of each analysis John Coleman left me with important soul searching questions which gave insight and helped with the application of Jesus' message to my own life.

Gentle insight
This book guides the reader in taking a fresh look at many biblical passages. The reader is given different perspectives from which to examine the teachings, in order to gain a more complete understanding of Jesus and the Bible. Thoughtful questions complete each chapter, making this an excellent book for use in individual or group study. This book doesn't seem intended for in-depth, tough theological study, but more for people with a basic familiarity with biblical teachings.

Insightful, Inspirational, Faithful
John Coleman makes a bold claim in the title "The Unexpected Teachings of Jesus: Encountering the Gospels All Over Again." Wonderfully, his claim is true. Coleman graciously invites the reader to walk with him as he honestly struggles with Gospel texts in an attempt to live faithfully, and more importantly, be comforted and challenged by Jesus of Nazareth. For Coleman Biblical scholarship is not just an academic enterprise, rather it is key to understanding Jesus in the 21st century. Coleman wrestles with Biblical insight and draws from his experiences as a pastor, friend, father, and spouse as he applies Jesus' teachings to his life and invites us to do the same.
Practically speaking the book's format is outstanding for devotional reading, teaching, and reference. Each teaching includes the Biblical passage, Coleman's encounter with the Gospel, and several insightful questions for personal reflection or group discussion. I look forward to leading group discussions at my church using Coleman's work. I am also thankful for the index, which not only names the teachings, but references the scripture as well.
"The Unexpected Teachings of Jesus" will not find a place perched on my bookshelf, but will be beside my bed and on my desk, well used and recommended.

White Socks Only
Published in Library Binding by Bt Bound (March, 2001)
Authors: Evelyn Coleman and Tyrone Geter
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The Lonesome Pine
I read the book, The Lonesome Pine by Jane West. This book is about a Christmas tree that turns into a beautiful book. I enjoyed this book because the pictures were incredible, and the author put great descriptions, used her imagination and put lots of thought into this book.
The illustrater, Monique Luijan-Bakerink made extroardinary pictures done in patel and paints. She made light fluffy colors. The illustrater definetly read the book before drawing the pictures because they looked exactly loke the descriptions the author put in the story.
I think that the author put great thought into this book before writing it. Some of the topics in this book are hard to understand and probobly took this author many hours to think it up.
The author showed great talent by showing incredible imagination. This book has many imaginatinary topics.
Jane West is a great author and I would like to thank her some day.
So, if youn want to read a great book by an excellent author, read the Lonesome Pine.

White Socks Only
I read this story to my students and were saddened by the events that took place but learned a valuable lesson! We are all equal no matter which color or race we are! A good book for children to learn that racism through the eyes of a little girl.

Excellent children's book on prejudice
"White Socks Only" takes place in segregated Mississippi and does an excellent job of helping young children realize how foolish it is to judge others by the color of their skin. On a hot Mississippi day, a young African-American girl walks into town and stops at a drinking fountain to get a drink. She sees a "Whites Only" sign on the drinking fountain and misinterprets the meaning of the sign. She innocently thinks the sign must mean "White Socks Only", so she takes off her black, Sunday best shoes and steps up to the fountain wearing her clean white socks. Suddenly, an angry white man pushes her to the ground. Soon other African-Americans gather around the fountain. To show their support and understanding of the child's innocent mistake, one by one they also take off their shoes and step up to get a drink with red, yellow, or blue socks. She is rescued by the "Chicken Man," who has very unusual powers.

This book deals with the issue of racism in a way that young children can relate to and understand because it makes the idea of judging people by the color of their skin almost as foolish as judging people by the color of their socks. I read this book to my fifth grade class and it generated some wonderful discussions about racism, and treating others with respect and kindness regardless of who they are, where they live, the color of their skin, or what clothes they wear. I highly recommend this book.

Alaskan Adventures
Published in Paperback by Safari Press (October, 2001)
Authors: Russell Annabel, Michael Coleman, and Chris Dorsey
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Alaska: The Great Old Days!
The venerable father of hunting and fishing literature, none other than Ernest Hemingway himself, said that Russell Annabel was the finest outdoor writer he had ever read. After reading this book I have to agree. Mr. Annabel is clearly one of the best, if not the very best, outdoor adventure author of the 20th century.

Most stories are set in Alaska and all are based on Mr. Annabel's real-life experiences or are based on historical fact. In particular, a few stories about the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian islands during World War II will bring tears to the eyes of the most jaded and hardened military historian.

But most stories are happier and deal with the sporting life in its most natural and enjoyable way. The essence of Mr. Annabel's writing is the essence of outdoors Alaska itself and comes from a time when fishing and hunting provided the basis of daily life for most resident Alaskans and many visitors.

Not to worry though, this book is not a dry historical treatise or boring account of sporting economics. It is a series of "up close and personal" accounts of the process of horsepacking, backpacking, hiking and exploring with rod and gun throughout Alaska. The stories also occur during a time when circumstances and attitudes were just a bit different than they are today.

This book is terrific, easy, entertaining, fact-based reading. If you are an outdoorsman (or woman) Annabel's stories will make you long for life in a different era.

Alaskan Adventures The Early Years
This book and the other four in the Annabel collection are a must read for any outdoor enthusiast.I have searched literally for years trying to find anything written by this author because of his unbelievable ability to make readers live his stories. I have remained captivated by Mr. Annabels writings in Outdoor Life since the late 50's and all of the 60's (all of my childhood years).You feel as though you are walking with him in all his adventures. When I read his articles in the early years I was mistaken to think that he was an Indian or part Indian because of the magic words he uses. This book will explain the reason for this misunderstanding. I wish there were many more books by Mr Annabel because since finding these five books, I read them all, then reread them and now wish there were more.

A larger than life account of adventure in our 49th state
This is an outstanding collection of stories from the Alaska of 50 years ago. Annabel lived an outsized life in Alaska's most interesting time, and told each story with an eye for both the beauty and adventure all outdoorsmen love. His dispatches from the WWII Aleutian campaign are riveting and heartbreaking, and his face-to-face encounters with bears, wolves and wild-eyed moose are enough to make you want to give up your job, sell the house and find your own place in among the northern lights. Nobody pens a better description of an Alaskan sunrise, and nobody gives a better taste of true Alaskan sourdough life. This book is a bargain at twice the price.

Born In Sin
Published in School & Library Binding by Atheneum (March, 2001)
Author: Evelyn Coleman
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Born In Sin
Fifteen-year-old Keisha lives with her mother, seventeen year old sister Rhenda, Rhenda's two year old baby, and Punky her brother. They don't have much money but they love each other and work hard to survive under their near poverty conditions. Keisha does well at school and wants very much to become a doctor. In fact with the help of her Biology teacher she has applied to nearby Avery University for a scholarship in their premed summer program. Unbeknownst to her, Ms. Hill the counselor at school has changed Keisha's curriculum track from college prep to general which disqualifies her for the premed program. When Keisha finds out she looses her temper and makes a dive for Ms. Hill's wig, pulling it off and creating a scene in the office. Once everything settles down it is decided that Keisha will attend a daily summer camp for "at risk" kids. Keisha never forgets her dream of attending Avery over the summer, but soon finds that she will have to postpone her plans until the fall if she can just come up with the money. Her mother says not to worry they will manage some how. Meanwhile, Keisha learns how to swim and soon discovers that she is a natural who wins every race. The local swim coach persuades Keisha and her friend Betty to join the team and gives them hope for the Olympics. This is a wonderful story that rings true with every word. It's the sort of book that you can't put down because the characters are so real and you want to find out what's going to happen to them.

DREAMS ARE OUR FUTURE, DON¿T LET YOURS DIE
I chose to read Born in Sin, because of the title. I like drama and assumed the pages would be overflowing with it. Instead of drama Evelyn Coleman takes us on an emotional sometimes-witty rollercoast ride with Keisha Wright and her friends at a program called At-Risk Kids. At Risk is for poor teens Born in Sin as Keisha puts it. Keisha aspired to attend Avery University and become the families' first doctor. When she receives her letter of acceptance, she quickly realizes that she doesn't have the money needed to attend. Keisha doesn't believe her mom can get the deposit for school and in her 14-yr. old mind she doesn't want to make her mom feel bad so she tries to hide the letter.

Betty Shabazz is also an At Risk kid. To get away from her drug addict mom and alcoholic stepfather she befriends Keisha, taking up for her whenever she's around. The first activity the kids learn is how to swim, while in the water Betty goes out much too far, and has a near fatal accident. At that moment Keisha decides she is going to learn to swim. 'Cause the next black person I saw drowning, I wanted to be able to save'em myself". Betty craves for attention and love and she goes looking for it in all the wrong places. Again she is at the depths of near death. Keisha and Betty learn how to swim, they are very good at it, so much so they believe they are going to the Olympics, with the help of the team coach, Mr. Walt.

With so much turmoil and disappointments in her life, and Betty no longer able to swim, Keisha decides that dreaming and believing isn't for black kids. After joining the swim team and making it as one of the anointed ones she gives up, until she receives a letter from Malik Shabazz, Betty's brother. Giving Keisha what she needs to go on, inspiration and romantic hope.

This book is for anyone and everyone who has a dream or simply had one and lost it. Keisha and her At Risk friends will show you that dreams come in all sizes.
Evelyn Coleman is a wonderful storyteller. The voice of Keisha was one I will always carry around with me.

Reviewed by Missy

Reaching Your Dreams
If you are ready to read an emotional, spiritual, thought-provoking coming of age novel of a young girl's struggle and turmoil in striving to reach her dreams, welcome to Born In Sin by Evelyn Coleman. You will not be disappointed in the depth and strong story line crafted by Ms. Coleman. This is a must read for everyone.

Keisha Wright is a fourteen-year-old girl who is streetwise and smart in school. Her long-standing dream is to one day become a doctor. To help fulfill that dream, she anxiously awaits news of her acceptance into the high school program at Avery University. While at school, Keisha is called to the principal's office along with other students and is told she is being assigned to a program for "at-risk" children for the summer. Not only is she told she is "at-risk" but is also told that she is being removed from the college prep course program where she has been getting excellent grades. This alone sets the stage of a very revealing story of how the education community and society itself stereotypes our youth.

While attending the "at-risk" program with persistence from her mother, Keisha meets and becomes best friends with Betty Shabazz and soon develops a crush on her brother, Malik. Betty and Malik both have to struggle daily with a drug addict mother and alcoholic father. Becoming friends with Keisha helps Betty to stay away from home as much as possible and from her parents environment.

After a beach incident, where Betty almost drowns when the lifeguard decides to take his time to rescue her; and Betty's brother Malik beats the lifeguard and is almost taken to jail, both Betty and Keisha decides it time to learn how to swim. What they soon realize is that they both have a talent in swimming and are asked to join a local community swim team. They excel in swimming to the point of being considered Olympic hopefuls.

In the meantime, the lure of the streets and material things take Betty to near disastrous results. While fighting that same lure, Keisha refuses to allow an opportunity to attend Avery University high school program pass her by, so she applies on her own and is accepted. However, because she was removed from the college prep program at school, she now must pay for the program herself. Keisha's mother takes it upon herself to earn the money anyway she can, keeping what she is doing from her family. When Keisha and the

rest of the family speculates on what their mother may be doing to earn the money, she follows her one night and is nearly raped. Still not knowing what her mother is doing to earn the money for her to attend Avery University, she becomes totally distraught to the point that she feels she must indeed been "born in sin".

Keisha, Betty, and Malik along with other strong developed characters in Ms. Coleman's novel is scripted to a point that every person jumps out at you with their own personal drama and real emotions. She draws you into relating and becoming truly absorbed in what Keisha, Betty, Malik and others must endure to reach their dreams.

As stated briefly in the beginning, Ms. Coleman's novel takes you through several emotions from laughing, sad, upset, angry, crying and finally cheers. I personally experience them all. It is a wonderful story where you will definitely close the book learning something very deep and relative to real situations and circumstances facing our youth today. You will truly enjoy the ending. I applaud Ms. Coleman on a well-written book and highly recommend everyone read Born in Sin. I give it a rating of 5.

Reviewed by Kalaani

A Complete Guide To Selling Books for the Self-Published Author
Published in Paperback by WLW Publishing (October, 2000)
Author: Linda Coleman-Willis
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Answer To A Prayer
Finally there is a comprehensive book in plain English that addresses how to sell books for the self-published author. Ms. Coleman-Willis' detailed reference guide will be a constant companion for those who desire to get their intellectual property into bookstores, libraries, book clubs and more. As an author, I was impressed with the volume of helpful information. I highly recommend this book to authors and publishers alike.

Great Work, Linda!
A terrific resource covering all aspects of marketing and selling books. The "Resource Directory" contains addresses and phone numbers of people you need to know. Fully indexed. Chapter 5 includes my popular "book signing tips" from my website at CelebrateLove.com/authors.htm.

Outstanding
Linda Coleman-Willis approaches the subject matter with a vengeance. She understands the needs of the novice author as well as those of seasoned individuals. She guides you through the process in easy cookbook style, making sure you understand the concepts and principles involved before taking you to the next step. Coleman-Willis has graciously given her readers every conceivable resource for making your book a success. She takes the mystery and stress out of the process of being self-published. Finally a tool arrives that has real utilitarian value for authors and publishers alike.

A Currier & Ives Christmas: Four Stories of Love Come to Life from the Canvas of Classic Christmas Art
Published in Paperback by Barbour & Co (September, 2002)
Authors: Lynn A. Coleman, Joann A. Grote, Diann Mills, and Deborah Raney
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Classic Currier & Ives
This book brings to life the traditional spirit of Christmas. Homesick for the old fashioned Christmas? Here it is.

I also recommend: •• THE PRAYER OF HANNAH by Kenn Gividen ••

Charming Holiday Reading


A delightful anthology of Christian romances by four very talented writers. The four novellas tell wholesome, heartwarming stories of holiday love in Currier & Ives classic American art settings.


DREAMS AND SECRETS by DiAnn Mills tells of the tender romance between Emma Leigh Carter and Thad Benson, who work together at the Jones Inn outside Philadelphia in the 1850s. Thad struggles with his dream of medical school and his growing attraction to Emma. Emma puts aside her feelings for Thad because she must help her family during her father's illness. Then Emma oversees a Christmas gift exchange for the Inn's owner and Thad draws her name. In her marvelous easy-to-read storytelling style, DiAnn Mills blends the young couple's faith and their tender love into an enchanting story that will warm the heart of readers from eight to eighty-eight.


Lynn A. Coleman's THE SNOW STORM sets the love story of Angela Harris and Michael Farley in the middle of a blizzard and uses the holiday season to draw the lovers together.


JoAnn A. Grote offers a delightful glimpse of life after the Civil War in her IMAGE OF LOVE as she tells how Lane Powell softens Mantie Clark's resolve never to love again after losing her love and one of her brothers in the war.


Deborah Raney's CIRCLE OF BLESSING centers on a family holiday tradition. Ms Raney's heroine Stella Bradford is determined to win the love of James Collingwood, her University professor with a dark secret in his past. You'll receive a blessing along with Stella and James.


A CURRIER & IVES CHRISTMAS would be a wonderful addition to anyone's library and a great holiday gift.


I also highly recommend MAIL ORDER HUSBAND by DiAnn Mills and BENEATH A SOUTHERN SKY by Deborah Raney.

Perfect holiday gift for any reader on your list!


A delightful anthology of Christian romances by four very talented writers. The four novellas tell wholesome, heartwarming stories of holiday love in Currier & Ives classic American art settings.


DREAMS AND SECRETS by DiAnn Mills tells of the tender romance between Emma Leigh Carter and Thad Benson, who work together at the Jones Inn outside Philadelphia in the 1850s. Thad struggles with his dream of medical school and his growing attraction to Emma. Emma puts aside her feelings for Thad because she must help her family during her father's illness. Then Emma oversees a Christmas gift exchange for the Inn's owner and Thad draws her name. In her marvelous easy-to-read storytelling style, DiAnn Mills blends the young couple's faith and their tender love into an enchanting story that will warm the heart of readers from eight to eighty-eight.


Lynn A. Coleman's THE SNOW STORM sets the love story of Angela Harris and Michael Farley in the middle of a blizzard and uses the holiday season to draw the lovers together.


JoAnn A. Grote offers a delightful glimpse of life after the Civil War in her IMAGE OF LOVE as she tells how Lane Powell softens Mantie Clark's resolve never to love again after losing her love and one of her brothers in the war.


Deborah Raney's CIRCLE OF BLESSING centers on a family holiday tradition. Ms Raney's heroine Stella Bradford is determined to win the love of James Collingwood, her University professor with a dark secret in his past. You'll receive a blessing along with Stella and James.


A CURRIER & IVES CHRISTMAS would be a wonderful addition to anyone's library and a great holiday gift.


I also highly recommend you include MAIL ORDER HUSBAND by DiAnn Mills and BENEATH A SOUTHERN SKY by Deborah Raney when you purchase this book.

Pleiku
Published in Paperback by St. Martin's Press (March, 1989)
Author: J. D. Coleman
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Quite Accurate
I came across this book back in 1989 when a friend asked me if my father was Sgt. Eugene Pennington who served in Vietnam. It turned out that he was reading this book and came across my father's name mentioned in it. I had been hearing my father talk of his experiences in Vietnam over the years and was amazed to find a book that so accurately informed the reader of the Vietnam experience. By reading this book, I became quite familiar with the tactics that my father had been trying to relate to me. I bought a copy of the book and gave it to him for Father's Day. To this day I still believe that it was the best gift I ever gave him. I would greatly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about helicopter warfare in the Vietnam era.

Where to begin a study of modern U.S. Air Assault tactics
If you want to know where America's Air Assault tactics came from, how they developed in Vietnam and by implication how Army Aviation is in trouble today--begin with this book! Have your highlight pen ready when you examine the decisions and actions of the brave pioneers who created 3-D Air Assault capabilities in our Army at the behest of Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara (he could do good things once in a while!). If you read carefully you will see that to get the drastic Army structural changes needed, the capabilities of helicopters were oversold--to get large numbers of helicopters, the ground vehicle was dismissed as a tool with the helicopter doing EVERYTHING. General Kinnard and his wizards of the 11th Airborne Division [later reflagged the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)] went about having helicopters do everything---place troops around the battlefield, act as CAS gunships, fly-in artillery for fire bases--except stay in the "death ground" of enemy fire (re: Colonel Bolger's book: "Death Ground: America's Infantry in battle") as an armored shield and protected transportation means carrying superior levels of firepower. So while Air Assault operations could "run circles" around the enemy on the map board, once Sky Troopers left their mounts, they were vulnerable to enemy fire fighting the enemy "even" at best---as the more numerous enemy could absorb untold casualties without ill effect at home. Its interesting that the helicopter-replacing-everything hubris negated the understanding of the need to field a helicopter-transportable light Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV) that could "Air-Mech" with Sky Troopers into battle and give them dominance from that point on in the operation. The M551 Sheridan light tank was available though 7 tons too heavy for the CH-47 Chinook; (I have seen photos of it lifted by the CH-54 Sky Crane heavy lift helicopter) why it wasn't airdropped from fixed-wing C-130 Hercules aircraft and used for 3-D maneuver fire support by the one parachute-qualified Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division is a mystery--the French Airborne parachuted all over the countryside in the first Indo-China war. Perhaps it was the urgency of getting a force that could maneuver deep into the Central Highlands of Vietnam before the enemy cut the South into two over-rode deeper analysis and force-on-force war games to reveal structural flaws and correct them. America was at war.

As you read this superb book which should be a companion to LTG Hal Moore/Joe Galloway's "We were Soldiers once and young" account of the Ia Drang battle fought by the 1st Cav, you get a sense that we miscalculated and were thinking "big blue arrows"--operationally impressed by helicopter distance/speed 3-D maneuver capability and overly reliant on distant artillery howitzer/aircraft supporting arms and overlooked the up close "belt buckle" fight that the enemy chose to fight whenever possible because it would curtail our long-range fires since he had the advantage in RPG explosives weapons effects (ready-to-fire, doesn't need to be unfolded like a M72 LAW) while we fought him "even"; our M16s versus his AKMs, our grenades versus his grenades, our bayonets versus his bayonets, our casualties versus his numbers.

Today, the "pendulum" has swung the other way with the helicopter Air Assault delivering foot-mobile troops implies casualty risks and some Commanders are willing to surrender 3-Dimensional maneuver to the enemy and fight "heavy" only along the 2-D axis, once again over-relying on distant supporting arms fires to defeat the enemy (but its digitized and "precision" this time!) though this means you will be channelized and ambushed in ground vehicle restricted terrain. That aircraft (Aviation branch) could work TOGETHER with tracked AFVs (Armor branch) to position the latter into "go" terrain to overcome the enemy was possible then and certainly do-able today with lighter AFVs like the 3-4 ton German Airborne Wiesel which can be lifted even by the Huey's replacement, the UH-60L Blackhawk.

The solution is to read this book and put yourself in the shoes of the decision makers like a good war simulation, draw on your history and combine Airborne and Air Assault capabilities using that magnificent air-droppable M113 that was rumbling all over the countryside (Coleman mentions go/no-go for tracked vehicle terrain considerations in his book), the new M551 Sheridan light tank, and combine the best attrributes of 3-D and 2-D maneuver into one. The lesson today is to field the M8 Armored Gun System successor to the M551 and modernize the latest M113A3, buy some Wiesels for recon and create an Air-Mech 3-D capability in the U.S. Army today before we fight in another place like Vietnam again. We cannot hope to chose where/when we can fight ("We don't do mountains and we don't do jungles"), living for a replay of the open desert to stampede our heavy armored caccoons ala' Desert Storm---we must be ready to go where America sends us. When South Vietnam was in danger of being severed by the NVA in 1965-66 we sent the best we had: the 1st Air Cavalry Division and they saved the day, though at a cost so high we could not sustain the support at home for the noble endeavor. At least Kinnard's men had some time to run tests and conduct experiments, we may not be so lucky. NOW is the time to get ready, this book would be a good place to start.

Concise history of First Cav's Ia Drang Valley campaign.
Coleman chronicles the history of the Ia Drang campaign from the viewpoints of many levels of the combatants - from brigade, battalion and company commanders to platoon and squad NCO's and skytroopers. Also insights from captured NVA documents and maps on their battle plans. I found his chapters covering the LZ XRay and LZ Albany actions gripping text.

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