"Lt. Col. Evans Carlson soon suffered all the torment of any reformer to the bureaucratic status quo. His attempts to infuse a Western military with a little Eastern culture had made him minimally eccentric in the eyes of most.

This book I read last year and have been meaning to do a review.  T.E. Lawrence in my humble opinion was the epitome of what a leader should be. As you read the book you will find it is much more than a lesson in history and that it is in fact, a lesson in leadership. T.E. Lawrence took the principle of know yourself and no your enemy to a level I have not read of anywhere before. He dug in and learned all he could about the Arab culture and adapted his leadership style to meet the task at hand.

Field Command is the single most important book written for law enforcement on strategy and tactics, mission planning and decision making under pressure. The author takes the principles of warfare and translates them to the law enforcement roll of protecting and serving society. The tactics and principles discussed in the book are sound. The leadership and command and control methodologies stem around the need for a much, much higher level of professionalism and critical skills development and a clearly defined mission and intent from law enforcement agencies.

I read Deadly Force: Firearms and American Law Enforcement, from the Wild West to the Streets of Today by Chris