[Military Men, the] fast-paced but episodic account of the "new" American army, is journalese at its best. Too thin to be history and too unsystematic to be sociology, it is nonetheless a document of considerable authority. Though the widely known chapter on West Point is in some respects the most interesting (and frightening), those on Fort Hood and Fort Lewis are equally penetrating and considerably more graphic. The author draws no general conclusions, but the men who train, fight, drink, love, gripe, and mark time through these pages do. The picture they paint is one of an army in deep trouble over discipline, race relations, the intrusion of changing civilian values, and, above all, an unpopular war. (p. cxxxii)