Summary Of The First Way Of War By John Grenier

The First Way of War Review
Dr. John Grenier is a historian that specializes in US military history. Dr. Grenier is a Lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force. He is also a professor at the Colorado United States Air Force Academy. The tile of the book is The First Way of War: American War Making on The Frontier, which means that Dr. Grenier is planning to explain how the American colonists shaped America and how the techniques and methods used in the wars in the Americas molded the modern American military. His introduction, Dr. Grenier recognizes English- Americans ways of war and their constant transformations, from their alienated from their mother country into Englishmen.
Dr. Grenier discussed the first way of war in the coming up of colonial America through the Creek War of 1813. In his introduction, Dr. Grenier examines the unique way America approached
The structure also shows the development of the Colonists fighting like the British soldiers, with precision and uniformity, to using both British tactics and Native American hit and run tactics. The structure is what helps the audience follow the military’s changes and transformations. The scope of the book is clear, the reader knows what Dr. Grenier is going in his book. The strengths of this book are the historians he included in his introduction. For example, he used one the most influential historian, Russell F. Weigley, because he suggested that, “Americans have created a singular military heritage.” He also uses Carl von Clausewitz book, On War because, “This study offers an alternative understanding to Weigley's, one based on the proposition that war focused on noncombatant populations is itself a fundamental part of Americans' military past, indeed, is Americans' first way of