Net assessment and military strategy: Retrospective and prospective essays: edited by Thomas G. Mahnken, New York, Cambria Press, 2020, 272 pp., $39.99 (PB), ISBN 9781621964759.

The volume begins with an introductory essay by Andrew Marshall, written with the assistance of Jacqueline Deal, that gives Marshall's own perspective on the intellectual origins of net assessment. This collection of essays is the most useful available book about the analytical approach that is called net assessment as it was practiced by Andrew W. Marshall while he was director of the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. [Extracted from the article]