Academic Writing for Military Personnel is a manual for writing clear and effective academic prose. Authored by an experience writing instructor and a retired military officer, both of whom now teach in a professional military education institution, it is directed at members of the armed forces who are entering, or perhaps re-entering, the academic community having spent much of their careers either writing in the professional military context or not writing at all. The book not only teaches officers how to write convincingly, but also explains why a sound grasp of academic writing can...