Steve Smith: 9 books

Every soldier's tour had its share of obtuse NCOs, chickenshit details, and those exquisitely torturous and endless waits best characterized in the ironic phrase, "Move around all you like, but keep one foot in place." This belated salute is for you disgruntled veterans who have known the...

This book continues my peacetime Army adventures begun with Single Striper and chronicles a time of going through the motions with one's brain half asleep and no ostensible purpose guiding our actions other than keeping the military machine from going to rust. Luckily, a few of us found a niche...

The Army that appears in the following pages is the Army seldom written about--that of sleep-walking boredom; of repetitive, mind-numbing and absurd details; of scowling, anal-retentive NCOs watching their disgruntled charges for signs of unauthorized pleasure; of days itching with tedium marching...

This book is about the people of the Third World like Trinidad and Tobago. It is about the violence of globalization, the rigidity of ideological orthodoxy and economic dogma and the unjust structure of the existing global economic order and its impact on global health. It is about the chaos created by a flawed epistemology.

A guide to living a more Joyful, empowered and meaningful life The promised Land is more than just another self-help book, it is a practical way of creating genuine and lasting change that can lead to living a more fulfilled life. This book contains useful guidance for people of all levels...

The General's first mistake was granting the men of the Kitzingen Area Band leeway to provide a musical background for his exalted command. His second mistake was not establishing someone to keep an eye on us. The company where we billeted were told that we were "hands off," that they were...

For military veterans of every era, especially those who served in the fifties and sixties, this comical, irreverent look back at the vanished peacetime Army will revive those zany memories of Basic Training and duty stations where humor was an enlisted man's only weapon against the boredom and aggravation...

- Unpublished work from August 2012 as criticism of G.W. Bush Presidency, now a retrospective that makes clear the status quo - How GOP Budgets, two wars, ineffective congress, and the 2008 Financial Crisis expanded the US Budget into a Bloated Disaster     - Drawing on career in government and...

Exploration of the Political Theory of Social Contract in context of US Founding Documents reflecting European Struggle for Self Rule and Civil Rights.  The task is too much for one man, one book.  This book explores the questions and lays out the structure for analysis.  Many links & addendum included with focus on decline of middle class and manufacturing.