Analysis - Book Report/Review Example

Perhaps the greatest credit owed to this book is that; it does not only narrate the military operational events and their significance in winning the war against the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan war, but gives elaborate insights into what would cost the USA victory in the war, from both the internal military structures and the external perspectives, and then settles on giving a solution to such problems. While the army, the security and intelligence officers on the ground had managed to strike into the core of the Taliban safe havens both in Afghanistan and across the border to Pakistan, it is the application of flawed policies that the USA military top officials sought to impose on the ground operations, that eventually saw the gains already made by the officers on the ground watered down, and a war almost worn turning into a complete failure (Shaffer, 2010). . a governmental redress of grievances was espoused by the US constitution to be a channel through which an individual who feels that there are some aspect that requires the government to pay attention to and even resolve, then, any individual or party in the USA can petition the government to address them, without any prohibitions.

While the interpretation of this concept, to many, would mean that any individual or party who is aggrieved by the government should bring such grievances to the attention of the government and require the government to act on them, the book; Operation Dark Heart, by Lt. Col. Shaffer Anthony has expanded the horizon of this concept, to include petitioning the government to address an issue that does not entail an individual as the only aggrieved party, but also that which seems to affect the ultimate good of all (Lowi, et al, 2007).

Through pinpointing various flaws that are associated with the bureaucracy in the military chain of command, as well as the flawed policies that are enforced by the top military officials, Shaffer uses the book; Operation Dark Heart, to petition the government to address such weaknesses, which are causing the USA to lose in the wars that it could apparently have won (Meher, 2004). While the issue of military bureaucracy inefficiency, and the flaws of the military policies and chain of command is not exactly the grievance that Shaffer as an individual can consider personal, it is an issue that is affecting the whole nation, and thus requires that it would be prudent to address such inefficiencies, for the future good of the military operations.

This way, the book; Operation Dark Heart, by Lt. Col. Shaffer Anthony has supported and expanded the concept of petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances, as