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===Writing===
West is the author of ten books. His 2019 collaboration with Marine General [[Jim Mattis]], entitled ''Call Sign Chaos: Learing to Lead'', was the #1 ''New York Times'' Bestseller.<ref>NY Times Book Review, 22Sept2019 </ref> A prior book, written with retired Marine Major General [[Ray L. Smith]], ''The March Up'',<ref>Gal Perl Finkel, [http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/General-Mattis-A-warrior-diplomat-475187 General Mattis: A warrior diplomat], ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', December 12, 2016.</ref> was awarded the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene, Jr. Award for non-fiction, as well as the William E. Colby Award for military history. The [[Veterans of Foreign Wars]] presented West with their National Media Award in 2005, after he wrote the book ''No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah''. His book ''The Strongest Tribe''
In ''The Strongest Tribe'' and in a subsequent article in ''Military Review'' about counterinsurgency lessons, West argued that the current doctrine of nation-building and winning hearts and minds by economic development was based on Western liberal theory rather than the realities of battle. West has grave reservations about extolling the effects of "non-kinetic COIN" (counterinsurgency). He believes that the warriors, not the people, defeat warriors, and that America's mistake in both Iraq and Afghanistan was to concede all authority to appoint and to remove for cause military and police officers. He believes American policymakers tried to do too much with too little in too short a time.
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