Articles

Scott Atran, "Hamas May Give Peace a Chance," NY Times (18 Dec 2004) <link>.

Tony Wood, "The Case for Chechnya," New Left Review 30 (Nov/Dec 2004) <link>.

H. Steven Blum, "A Vision for the National Guard," Joint Force Quarterly 36 (Dec 2004) 24-29 <link>.

Steven J. Lambakis, "Reconsidering Asymmetric Warfare," Joint Force Quarterly 36 (Dec 2004) 102-108 <link>.

Nathaniel R. Helms, "Armor Priority? What Priority?" Defense Watch (13 Dec 2004) <link>.

Steven Metz & Raymond Millen, "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Reconceptualizing Threat and Response," Strategic Studies Institute (Nov 2004) <link>.

Max G. Manwaring, "Shadows of Things Past and Images of the Future: Lessons for the Insurgencies in Our Midst," Strategic Studies Institute (Nov 2004) <link>.

Scott E. McIntosh, "Thumping the Hive: Russian Neocortical Warfare in Chechnya" (MA Thesis: Naval Postgraduate School, 2004) <link>.

Bruce Cumings, "Korea: Forgotten Nuclear Threats," Le Monde diplomatique (Dec 2004) <link>.

Nathaniel R. Helms, "Training Failures Left Guard Unit Unready for Iraq," Defense Watch (30 Dec 2004) <link>.

Graham Wheeler, "Battlefield Epiphanies in Ancient Greece: A Survey," Digressus 4 (2004) 1-14 <link>.

Jason Sherman, "Pentagon Slashes $30 Billion from Major Navy, Air Force, Missile Defense Programs," InsideDefense (30 Dec 2004) <link>.

Phillip Carter & Owen West, "Iraq 2004 Looks Like Vietnam 1966," Slate (27 Dec 2004) <link>.

Daniel Levin, Acting Assistant Attorney General, "Memorandum for James B. Comey, Deputy Attorney General" (30 Dec 2004) ["Torture Memo"] <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, " Scapegoating Rumsfeld," Antiwar.com (22 Dec 2004) <link>.

Editorial: "Global Intelligence Domination," NY Times (21 Dec 2004) <link>.

Rick Atkinson, "'We Back You': Separating the Warriors From the War," Washington Post (19 Dec 2004) <link>.

Douglas Jehl & Eric Schmitt, "Pentagon Seeks to Expand Role in Intelligence-Collecting," NY Times (19 Dec 2004) <link>.

Frank L. Holt, "Alexander: Great Then, Grating Now," The Chronicle Review (3 Dec 2004) <link>.

Reuters: "[U.S. Army National] Guard to Triple Re-enlistment Bonuses," MSNBC (16 Dec 2004) <link>.

Scott Shane, "A Flood of Troubled Soldiers Is in the Offing, Experts Predict," NY Times (16 Dec 2004) <link>.

Bruce Cumings, "Korea: Forgotten Nuclear Threats," Le Monde diplomatique (Dec 2004) <link>.

William Kristol, "The Defense Secretary We Have," Washington Post (15 Dec 2004) <link>, also in Weekly Standard (15 Dec 2004) <link>.

John R. Guardiano, "Question Authority: What the Media Got Wrong about Spc. Wilson and Secretary Rumsfeld, WSJ Opinion (15 Dec 2004) <link>.

Rowan Scarborough, "Report Leans toward Women in Combat," Washington Times (13 Dec 2004) <link>.

Dave Moniz, "Rate of Guard Deaths Higher," USA Today (13 Dec 2004) <link>.

Mark Rothschild, "Plenty of Strategy, Just No Exit," AntiWar.com (13 Dec 2004) <link>.

"Deserters: We Won't Go to Iraq," CBS News (8 Dec 2004) <link>.

Steve Coll, "In the Kill Zone: The Unnecessary Death of Pat Tillman," Washington Post (5 Dec 2004) <link>, also at Truthout (5 Dec 2004) <link>.

Thomas Powers, "Secret Intelligence and the 'War on Terror,'" NY Review of Books 51.20 (16 Dec 2004) <link>.

Emily Eakin, "Ancient Conqueror, Modern Devotees," NY Times (26 Nov 2004) <link>.

William Booth, "Alexander the Actual," Washington Post (22 Nov 2004) <link>.

Sharon Waxman, "Breaking Ground with a Gay Movie Hero" [Alexander], NY Times (20 Nov 2004) <link>; related story from Reuters: "RPT—Outraged Greeks Say Alexander Was Not Bisexual" (19 Nov 2004) <link>.

Thomas G. Palaima, "In America, We Would Rather Just Fight about It," The Statesman (29 Nov 2004) <link>.

Yahoo! Actualités, "Un 'trésor de guerre' gaulois découvert en Corrèze," (27 Nov 2004) <link>.

Thomas L. Friedman, "The Last Mile," NY Times (28 Nov 2004) <link>.

Associated Press, "Military Academy Admissions Down," Military.com (23 Nov 2004) <link>.

Jackie Spinner, "Medics Testify to Fallujah's Horrors," Washington Post (24 Nov 2004) <link>.

Samir Amin, "U.S. Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East," Monthly Review (Nov 2004) <link>.

Linda Rothstein, et al., "Rethinking Doomsday," Bull. of Atomic Scientists (Nov/Dec 2004) 36-41, 44-47, 73 <link>.

Cathy Young, "Defending Repression: Why Are Conservatives Trying to Rehabilitate McCarthyism and the Japanese Internment?" ReasonOnline (Nov 2004) <link>

Peter Beaumont, "Why Embedded Journalists Are Being Taken for a Ride," Guardian Unlimited (21 Nov 2004) <link>.

Thomas L. Friedman, "'Groundhog Day' in Iraq," NY Times (11 Nov 2004) <link>.

Edwin H. Simmons, "Forward" to Gary D. Solis, Son Thang: An American War Crime (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Pr, 1997), Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics <link>.

"Last Letters Home" [HBO documentary website] <link>.

Bob Baker, "History was Just the Half of It" [on Oliver Stone's Alexander], NY Times (14 Nov 2004) <link>.

Knut Royce, "Purge Ordered at CIA," Newsday.com (14 Nov 2004) <link>.

Tim Weiner, "Pentagon Envisioning a Costly Internet for War," NY Times (13 Nov 2004) <link>.

David Goodman, "Breaking Ranks," MotherJones.com (Nov/Dec 2004) <link>.

Barry Yeoman, "Dirty Warriors," MotherJones.com (Nov/Dec 2004) <link>.

Lori Robertson, "Images of War," American Journalism Review (Oct/Nov 2004) <link>.

"Full Transcript of bin Laden's Speech," Aljazeera.net (1 Nov 04) <link>.

Michael Hirsh, "Bernard Lewis Revisited," Washington Monthly (Nov 2004) <link>.

Ahmed S. Hashim, "Iraq's Chaos: Why the Insurgency Won't Go Away," Boston Review (Oct/Nov 2004) <link>.

Eric Margolis, "It's the War, Stupid," Toronto Sun (31 Oct 2004) <link>, also at Common Dreams (31 Oct 2004) <link>.

Thom Shanker, "Pentagon Extends Tours of Duty for About 6,500 U.S. Soldiers," NY Times (30 Oct 2004) <link>.

Peter J. Boyer, "The Believer: Paul Wolfowitz Defends His War," New Yorker (1 Nov 2004) <link>.

Les Roberts, et al., Mortality before and after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq: Cluster Sample Survey <link>.

Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor [Charles Duelfer] to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD, CIA website [large files] <link>, U/M Documents Center [smaller files] <link>.

Bryan Bender, "Senator [Carl Levin] Says Pentagon Unit Hyped Terror Tie," Common Dreams (22 Oct 2004) <link>.

Victor D. Hanson, "What Would Patton Say about the Present War?" Imprimis (Oct 2004) <link>.

William L. Anderson, "What Would Patton Say? Who Cares?" Lew Rockwell.com (23 Oct 2004)) <link>.

Sean Naylor and Megan Scully, "Q & A with Army Chief of Staff Peter J. Schoomaker," ArmyTimes.com (22 Oct 2004) <link>.

Martha Bayles, "Portraits of Mars," Wilson Quarterly (Aut 2004) <link>.

Tom Palaima, "Lessons for Leaders," Sacbee.com (24 Oct 2004) <link>.

Richard Wolffe, "Military Politics," Newsweek (19 Oct 2004) <link>.

Michael R. Gordon, "Poor Intelligence Misled Troops about Risk of Drawn-Out War," NY Times (20 Oct 2004) <link>.

"Spengler," "In Praise of Premature War," Asia Times (19 Oct 2004) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson, "Military Flashes More Steel in Iraq: Will It Work?" CS Monitor (20 Oct 2004) <link>.

Tony Judt, "Dreams of Empire" [review article on 9 books], NY Review of Books 51.17 (4 Nov 2004) <link>.

Ana M. Alaya, " By the Thousands, Soldiers 50 and Older are Being Deployed," The Star-Ledger (17 Oct 2004) <link>.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, "Iraq's Barbed Realities," Washington Post (17 Oct 2004) <link>.

Patrick Walters, "Losing the War and Peace," The Australian (18 Oct 2004) <link>.

Paul W. Schroeder, "The War Bin Laden Wanted," American Conservative (25 Oct 2004) <link>.

W. Thomas Smith, "In Their Own Hands: An Emerging Iraqi Special-ops Forces Works to Get the Bad Guys," National Review Online (12 Oct 2004) <link>.

Gavan McCormack, "Remilitarizing Japan," New Left Review 29 (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>.

Nicholas Eberstadt, "The Persistence of North Korea," Policy Review 127 (Oct/Nov 2004) <link>.

David Barstow, William J. Broad, and Jeff Gerth, "How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence," NY Times (3 Oct 2004) <link>.

AP, "Reservists not Reporting on Time," Military.com (2 Oct 2004) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Understanding Fourth Generation War," Military Review (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>.

Mark David Maxwell, "The Law of War and Civilians on the Battlefield: Are We Undermining Civilian Protections?" Military Review (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>.

Robert M. Cassidy, "Winning the War of the Flea: Lessons from Guerrilla Warfare," Military Review (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>

Melvyn P. Leffler, "Think Again: Bush's Foreign Policy," Foreign Policy (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>.

"War Crimes and Imperial Fantasies" [interview with Noam Chomsky], International Socialist Review 37 (Sep/Oct 2004) <link> and <link>.

Michael O'Hanlon, "The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army," Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 4-14 <link>.

Joseph R. Nunez, "Canada's Global Role: A Strategic Assessment of its Military Power," Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 75-93 <link>.

Sergio Catiignani, "Motivating Soldiers: The Example of the Israeli Defense Forces," Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 108-121 <link>.

Larry Diamond, "What Went Wrong in Iraq," Foreign Affairs 83.5 (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>.

Reviews

Bing West and Ray L. Smith, The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the First Marine Division (New York: Bantam, 2003), Williamson Murray and Robert H. Scales, The Iraq War: A Military History (Cambridge: Harvard U Pr, 2003), & Anthony H. Cordesman, The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons (Washington: CSIS Pr, 2003), reviewed in "Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Review Essay," by James R. Blaker, Joint Force Quarterly 36 (Dec 2004) 110-111 <link>; West & Smith also reviewed in Policy Review (Apr/May 2004) <link>, Murray & Scales in Foreign Affairs (Jan/Feb 2004) <link>.

Thomas Gilbert Mahnken, Uncovering Ways of War: Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (Ithaca: Cornell U Pr, 2002), Joint Force Quarterly 36 (Dec 2004) 110-111 <link>.

Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (NY: Random House, 2001), Joint Force Quarterly 36 (Dec 2004) 110-111 <link>.

Peter Cozzens, ed., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 6 (Urbana: U Illinois P, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Dec 2004) <link>.

Lisa A. Long, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War (Philadelphia: U Penn Pr, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Dec 2004) <link>.

Richard Peters & Xiaobing Li, eds., Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers (Lexington: U Pr of Kentucky, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Nov 2004) <link>.

Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, Krieg, Handel und Piraterie: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des hellenistischen Rhodos (Berlin: Akademie Verl., 2002), Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 7 (2004) 1097-1102 <link>.

Hayden B. Peake, "The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf" [survey/review article], Studies in Intelligence 48.3 (2004) <link>.

Frederick P. Hitz, The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage Reality of Espionage (NY: Knopf, 2004) Studies in Intelligence 48.3 (2004) <link>.

Christopher Catherwood, Winston's Folly: Imperialism and the Creation of Modern Iraq (NY: Carroll & Graf, 2004), Guardian Unlimited (27 Nov 2004) <link>.

Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade: A New History (NY: OUP, 2004) and Jonathan Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (NY: Viking, 2004), New Yorker (13 Dec 2004) <link>.

James H. Willbanks, Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War (Lawrence: U Kansas Pr, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Nov 2004) <link>.

Oscar E. Gilbert, Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea (Havertown: Casement, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Nov 2004) <link>.

Oliver Stone, dir., Alexander—reviews (2) in the Washington Post (24/26 Nov 2004) <link>, <link>, NY Times (24 Nov 2004) <link>, San Francisco Chronicle (24 Nov 2004) <link>, and New Yorker (6 Dec 2004) <link>.

Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War (NY: Putnam, 2004), and Jon Lee Anderson, The Fall of Baghdad (NY: Penguin, 2004), NY Review of Books 51.20 (16 Dec 2004) <link>.

Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (NY: Norton, 2004), Law and Politics Book Review 14.11 (Nov 2004) <link>.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, War, Evil, and the End of History (Hoboken, NJ: Melville House, 2004), Arts.Telegraph (21 Nov 2004) <link>.

Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War (NY: Penguin, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Nov 2004) <link>.

Josiah Bunting, Ulysses S. Grant (NY: Henry Holt, 2004), The New Criterion (Nov 2004) <link>.

J.J. Wilkes, ed., Documenting the Roman Army: Essays in Honour of Margaret Roxan (London: Inst. of Classical Studies, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.24 <link>.

Bob Herbert, "Death Comes Knocking" [on the HBO documentary, "Last Letters Home"], NY Times (12 Nov 2004) <link>.

Ivan Eland, The Empire Has No Clothes: US Foreign Policy Exposed (Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2004), Asia Times Online (13 Nov 2004) <link>.

Noah Feldman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton: PUP, 2004), NY Times (14 Nov 2004) <link>.

Andreola Rossi, Contexts of War: Manipulation of Genre in Virgilian Battle Narrative (Ann Arbor: U Michigan Pr, 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.09 <link>.

Nina Berman, Purple Hearts (London: Trolley Pr, 2004), AntiWar.com (2 Nov 2004) <link>.

Terry Brighton, Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade (NY: Holt, 2004), and Saul David, Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 (NY: Viking, 2004), Guardian Unlimited (6 Nov 2004) <link>.

Christoph Reuter, My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing (Princeton: PUP, 2004), and Barbara Victor, Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers (NY: Rodale, 2003), London Review of Books 26.21 (4 Nov 2004) <link>.

Donald R. Shaffer, After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2004), Washington Times (7 Nov 2004) <link>.

Tanya Lyons, Guns and Guerilla Girls: Women in the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle (Trenton: Africa World Pr, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Nov 2004) <link>.

Robert E. L. Krick, Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Oct 2004) <link>.

Antony Beevor, The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova: Was Hitler's Favorite Actress A Russian Spy? (NY: Viking, 2004), Washington Post (3 Nov 2004) <link>.

Terry Castle, "Our First View of the End of the World" [review article on seven books on WWI], The Chronicle Review (5 Nov 2004) <link>.

Barry Strauss, Salamis: The Greatest Battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004), TLS <link; scroll down>.

Oliver Stone, dir., Alexander the Great [opens 24 Nov 2004], Salon.com [via Classics Listserv] (25 Oct 2004) <link>.

Mark Urban, Wellington's Rifles: Six Years to Waterloo with England’s Legendary Sharpshooters (NY: Walker&Co., 2004), Wilson Quarterly (Aut 2004) <link>.

Ha Jin, War Trash (NY: Random House, 2004), CS Monitor (12 Oct 2004) <link>.

Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam (Oxford: OUP, 2004), CS Monitor (5 Oct 2004) <link>.

Seymour M. Hersh, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (NY: HarperCollins, 2004), Guardian Unlimited (13 Sep 2004) <link>, CS Monitor (21 Sep 2004) <link>, NY Times (17 Oct 2004) <link>.

Tommy Franks, American Soldier (NY: HarperCollins, 2004), New Left Review 29 (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>.

Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (NY: Henry Holt, 2004), ABC News (3 Oct 2004) <link>.

Jeremy Bernstein, Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004), American Scientist (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>.

Rick Atkinson, In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat (NY: Holt, 2004), NY Times (4 Apr 2004) <link> and Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 143-144 <link>.

James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (NY: Viking, 2004), NY Observer (8 Mar 2004) <link>, The Nation (22 Apr 2004) <link>, Foreign Affairs 83.5 (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>, Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 146-148 <link>.

John Keegan, The Iraq War (NY: Knopf, 2004), Christian Science Monitor (8 Jun 2004) <link>, Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 148-150 <link>.

Paul Fussell, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45 (NY: Modern Library, 2003), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 150-151 <link>.

P.W. Singer, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Pr, 2003), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 153-154 <link>.

Walter J. Boyne, The Influence of Air Power upon History (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2003), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 154-156 <link>.

John T. Carney, Jr., and Benjamin F. Schemmer, No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America’s Special Tactics Units from Iran to Afghanistan (NY: Ballantine, 2002), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 158-159 <link>.

Andrew Scobell, China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 159-160 <link>.

Robert K. Massie, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea (NY: Random House, 2003), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 162-164 <link>.

John A. Nagl, Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife (Westport, CT.: Praeger, 2002), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 166-168 <link>.

Gil Merom, How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam (NY: Cambridge U Pr, 2003), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 170-172 <link>.

Norman Friedman, Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America’s New Way of War (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Pr, 2003), Parameters 34.3 (Aut 2004) 172-173 <link>.

Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (NY: Penguin, 2004), Newsday.com (18 Apr 2004) <link>, and Foreign Affairs 83.5 (Sep/Oct 2004) <link>.