David J. Lonsdale

The title gives the wrong impression, that it is just another critical critique of Alexander, of which there are far too many and they contain little enlightenment and much less understanding. I suppose a strategic analyst can be a bit prone to simplicity and repetitive rhetoric, and in this case never really reaching his point, at least to someone who has read a bit more of Alexander elsewhere.

It is quite refreshing to read someone who is not in fear and just repeating the intelligentsia in this over studied, under thought logic of a subject. To hear some different ideas expressed from a different point of view, not suppressed buy clouds of hedging and counterdictions. It is an easy and quick read and enough point of view to remind you other views exist.… (mais)