Articles

Robert Hodierne, "Down on the War; Poll: More Troops Unhappy with Bush’s Course in Iraq," MilitaryCity.com (29 Dec 2006) <link>.

Colby Cash, "Does America Need a Foreign Legion?" Canada.com (29 Dec 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Saddam: The Death of a Dictator," Salon.com (30 Dec 2006) <link>.

Chris Hedges, "America’s Holy Warriors," Truthdig.com (31 Dec 2006) <link>.

Ian S. Lustick, "An All-Consuming 'War on Terror,'" Baltimore Sun (31 Dec 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "For Whom the Bell Tolls:
Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein," Informed Comment (30 Dec 2006) <link>.

Gabriel Kolko, "Rumsfeld and the American Way of War," LewRockwell.com (26 Dec 2006) <link>.

Richard Whittle, "Uncle Sam Wants US Muslims to Serve," CS Monitor (27 Dec 2006) <link>.

Jim Lobe, "A Bad Year for Empire," Electronic Iraq (28 Dec 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2006," Informed Comment (26 Dec 2006) <link>, also AlterNet (29 Dec 2006) <link>.

Stephen Fidler, "US 'Has Cut Too Many Troops in Europe,'" Financial Times (22 Dec 2006) <link>.

Larisa Alexandrovna, "Bush Is Waiting for an Iraq Solution That Will Never Come," AlterNet (22 Dec 2006) <link>.

Ian Williams, "Strange Attraction: Stories of Imperial Decline," Common Review 5.3 (Aut 2006) 25-32 <link>.

Daniel Born, "Essential Wartime Reading," Common Review 5.3 (Aut 2006) 4-5, 13 <link>.

Richard Russell, "Military Planning for a Middle East Stockpiled with Nuclear Weapons," Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 97-101 <link>.

Kenneth M. Pollack, "The Seven Deadly Sins of Failure in Iraq: A Retrospective Analysis of the Reconstruction," The Middle East Review of International Affairs [Brookings Inst.] (Dec 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Last Throw of the Dice" [On War #197], Free Congress Foundation (18 Dec 2006) <link>.

W. Patrick Lang & Ray McGovern, "Surging To Defeat In Iraq," TomPaine.com (18 Dec 2006) <link>.

Ullrich Fichtner, "We Have to Raise Our Sights beyond the Range of an M-16" [interview with Gen. David Petraeus],  Spiegel Online (18 Dec 2006) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "Broken Army, Broken Empire," Antiwar.com (20 Dec 2006) <link>.

Ullrich Fichtner, "The US Army Learns from Its Mistakes in Iraq," Spiegel Online (18 Dec 2006) <link>.

William E. Odom, "Six Brutal Truths about Iraq," Nieman Watchdog (11 Dec 2006) <link>.

Spencer Ackerman, "Final Fantasy: Fred Kagan's Disastrous Plan for 'Victory' in Iraq," American Prospect (15 Dec 2006) <link>, also CBS News (17 Dec 2006) <link>.

Frederick W. Kagan, "Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq," American Enterprise Institute (14 Dec 2006) <link>.

George Packer, "Knowing the Enemy," New Yorker (18 Dec 2006) <link>.

Julian E. Barnes, "New Manual at Odds with Key Iraq Tactics," LA Times (16 Dec 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "How the Republicans Are Stealing the November Elections or, Bushes and Bonapartes," Informed Comment (15 Dec 2006) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson, "General Says Army Will Need to Grow," Washington Post (15 Dec 2006) <link>.

Lolita C. Baldor, "Army Moves to Reduce Strain on Troops," Associated Press (14 Dec 2006) <link>.

Hendrik Hertzberg, "Studies Say," New Yorker (18 Dec 2006) <link>.

Marie Cocco, "A Fraudulently Financed War," Truthdig.com (11 Dec 2006) <link>.

Julian E. Barnes, "Pentagon's Plan: More U.S. Troops in Iraq," LA Times (13 Dec 2006) <link>.

Conn Hallinan, "Madness and War," Foreign Policy In Focus (7 Dec 2006) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "Beware the Next Bipartisan War," Antiwar.com (12 Dec 2006) <link>.

Pauline Jelinek, "Military Meets, Exceeds Recruiting Goals," Yahoo! News (12 Dec 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Knocking Opportunity" [On War #196], Free Congress Foundation (11 Dec 2006) <link> & Antiwar.com (12 Dec 2006) <link>.

Murray Fromson, "Name That Source," NY Times (11 Dec 2006) <link>.

Helena Cobban, "The 33-Day War: Hizbullah’s Victory, Israel’s Choice," Boston Review (Nov/Dec 2006) <link>.

Elaine Scarry, "Rules of Engagement: Why Military Honor Matters," Boston Review (Nov/Dec 2006) <link>.

C.J. Chivers, "Black-Market Weapon Prices Surge in Iraq Chaos," NY Times (10 Dec 2006) <link> & Seattle Times (10 Dec 2006) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "A Civil War—and Worse," Boston Globe (4 Dec 2006) <link> & CommonDreams.org (10 Dec 2006) <link>.

Uriya Shavit, "The Road to Democracy in the Arab World," Azure 26 (Aut 2006) <link>.

Frank van der Linden, "General Bragg's Impossible Dream: Take Kentucky," Civil War Times (Nov 2006) <link>.

Richard F. Welch, "America's Civil War: Why the Irish Fought for the Union," Civil War Times (Oct 2006) <link>.

Victor D. Hanson, "War-Making and the Machines of War," Commentary (Dec 2006) <link>.

Dana Benner, "Iroquois Battle Fellow Iroquois on the Niagara Frontier during the War of 1812," Military History (Dec 2006) <link>.

Robert N. Thompson, "Battle of Cold Harbor: The Folly and Horror," Military History (Oct 2006) <link>.

Ahmed Rashid, "NATO's Failure Portends a Wider War," Int'l Herald Tribune (30 Nov 2006) <link>.

Solomon Moore, "'Fear Took Over' in Baghdad Raid," LA Times (4 Dec 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Rumsfeld's Shocking Memo," Informed Comment (3 Dec 2006) <link>.

Robert Fisk, "Like Hitler and Brezhnev, Bush Is in Denial," The Independent (3 Dec 2006) <link>.

Hannah Allam, "Iraqi Army Division Deepens Discord," McClatchy Newspapers (2 Dec 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "More Troops?" [On War #194], Free Congress Foundation (29 Nov 2006) <link> & Antiwar.com (1 Dec 2006) <link>.

Glenn Greenwald, "The 'Centrist' Position on the War in Iraq," LewRockwell.com (28 Nov 2006) <link>.

Robert Higgs, "War Weariness," The Independent Institute (26 Nov 2006) <link>.

John Tirman, "Ten Fallacies about the Violence in Iraq," AlterNet (28 Nov 2006) <link>.

Alex de Waal, "I Will Not Sign" [Darfur], London Review of Books 28.23 (30 Nov 2006) <link>.

David A. Fulghum, "Lebanon Fighting Produced Info War Coup," Aviation Week (26 Nov 2006) <link>.

Seth Mydans, "An Old Soldier Still Fights Vietnam War," The International Herald Tribune (24 Nov 2006) <link>.

Richard K. Betts, "How to Think about Terrorism," Wilson Quarterly (Win 2006) <link>.

Dafna Linzer & Thomas E. Ricks, "Anbar Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker," Washington Post (28 Nov 2006) <link>.

Anne Usher, "Stress Disorders, Drug Abuse, Little Help for Troops," Statesman.com (26 Nov 2006) <link>.

Max Boot, "The Paradox of Military Technology," The New Atlantis 14 (Fall 2006) 13-31 <link>.

Chuck Hagel, "Leaving Iraq, Honorably," Washington Post (26 Nov 2006) <link>.

Seth Mydans, "Gadfly or Hero? Former Pilot Fights On against Vietnam," NY Times (25 Nov 2006) <link>.

Rosa Brooks, "Iraq is Broke beyond Repair," LA Times (24 Nov 2006) <link>.

William Pfaff, "Bush Left Reality Behind. Now We Are All Trapped," The Observer (19 Nov 2006) <link>.

Jerome Bernard, "US Involved for Longer Time in Iraq Than in World War II," Yahoo! News (23 Nov 2006) <link>.

Peter Grier, "Rising Price of the War on Terror," CS Monitor (21 Nov 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Davy Jones’s Locker" [On War #193], Free Congress Foundation (20 Nov 2006) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Pentagon May Suggest Short-Term Buildup Leading to Iraq Exit," Washington Post (20 Nov 2006) <link> & MSNBC.com (20 Nov 2006) <link>.

Seymour Hersh, "The Next Act," New Yorker (27 Nov 2006) <link>.

Nir Rosen, "Anatomy of a Civil War," Boston Review (Nov/Dec 2006) <link>.

Robert Kagan & William Kristol, "Bush's Iraq Legacy: What Kind of Iraq Will He Bequeath to His Successor?" Weekly Standard 12.10 (20 Nov 2006) <link>.

Peter J. Boyer, "Downfall: How Donald Rumsfeld Reformed the Army and Lost Iraq," New Yorker (20 Nov 2006) <link>.

"The Army We Need" [editorial], NY Times (19 Nov 2006) <link>.

John Keegan, "What Is a Civil War?" Prospect 129 (Dec 2006) <link>.

Kirk Semple, "A Captain’s Journey from Hope to Just Getting Her Unit Home," NY Times (19 Nov 2006) <link>.

Eric Egland, "Six Steps to Victory: The Bottom-Up Plan to Defeat the Insurgency," Weekly Standard (16 Nov 2006) <link>.

Frida Berrigan, "United States Rides Weapons Bonanza Wave," Foreign Policy in Focus (16 Nov 2006) <link>.

Simon Tisdall, "US Plans Last Big Push in Iraq," The Guardian (16 Nov 2006) <link>.

Michael Kinsley, "When 'Oops' Isn't Enough," Time (12 Nov 2006) <link>.

Georg Mascolo, "Iraq Is Not Winnable" [interview with Richard Haass], Spiegel Online (13 Nov 2006) <link>.

Michael Bess, "The Dark Side of the 'Good War,'" LA Times (12 Nov 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Lose a War, Lose an Election" [On War #192], Free Congress Foundation (13 Nov 2006) <link> & Antiwar.com (14 Nov 2006) <link>.

Keith S. Collins, "Will Rumsfeld's Reforms Last?" CS Monitor (13 Nov 2006) <link>.

Rory Stewart, "U.S. Must Get Out of Iraq—Now," Toronto Star (8 Nov 2006) <link>.

Dan Glaister, "Absent from History: The Black Soldiers at Iwo Jima," Guardian Unlimited (20 Oct 2006) <link>.

Matthias Gebauer, "Mission Not Accomplished," Spiegel Online (9 Nov 2006) <link>.

Scott Peterson & Tom Peter, "Among US Troops in Iraq, Mixed Reviews of Rumsfeld's Resignation," CS Monitor (10 Nov 2006) <link>.

Lisa Hoffman, "Taps for WWI Vets," Washington Times (10 Nov 2006) <link>.

Doug Troutman & Tom Engelhardt, "Reenacting War: Reflections on a Country Losing Its Humanity," TomDispatch (10 Nov 2006) <link> & Antiwar.com (11 Nov 2006) <link>.

Jessica Holzer & Matthew Swibel, "A Staggering New Bill For Iraq?" Forbes (9 Nov 2006) <link>.

Simon Crump, "War Words," The Guardian (10 Nov 2006) <link>.

H. Scott Prosterman, "Where Is Ike?" Informed Comment (10 Nov 2006) <link>.

David Corn, "And Now, Iraq," The Nation (27 Nov 2006) <link>.

Joshua Holland, "Bush Replaces Rumsfeld with ... Another Rumsfeld," AlterNet (8 Nov 2006) <link>.

Amanda Paulson, "The New Veterans among Us: Women," CS Monitor (10 Nov 2006) <link>.

Phillip Carter, "A Catalog of Failure: Rumsfeld's Biggest Blunders and How They've Harmed America," Slate (8 Nov 2006) <link>.

Fred Kaplan, "The Analyst Cometh," Slate (8 Nov 2006) <link>.

H.D.S. Greenway, "A Misguided Faith in Force," Boston Globe (7 Nov 2006) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "Fighting over Who Lost Iraq," LA Times (7 Nov 2006) <link>.

James Carroll, "What It Will Take to End War," Boston Globe (6 Nov 2006) <link>, also Common Dreams (6 Nov 2006) <link>.

Chris Hedges, "Bush and Israel, Midwives to Radical Islam," Truthdig.com (6 Nov 2006) <link>.

Terry Jones, "Julius Caesar Had Gaul; Bush Just Has Gall," The Observer (5 Nov 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "He's Tanned, Rested and Ready," [On War #191], Free Congress Foundation (6 Nov 2006) <link>.

David Rose, "Neo Culpa," Vanity Fair (3 Nov 2006) <link>; see also "Vanity Unfair:
A Response to Vanity Fair" [a Symposium with Eliot A. Cohen, David Frum, Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, & Michael Rubin], National Review Online (5 Nov 2006) <link>.

Editorial, "Time for Rumsfeld to Go," Army Times [also Navy Times, Marine Times, & Air Force Times] (4 Nov 2006) <link>.

C.J. Chivers, "Sniper Attacks Adding to Peril of U.S. Troops," NY Times (4 Nov 2006) <link>.

C.J. Chivers, "Tending a Fallen Marine, with Skill, Prayer and Fury," NY Times (2 Nov 2006) <link>.

Nina Berman, "Does the Military Send Sick Soldiers to War?," AlterNet (3 Nov 2006) <link>.

Mark Benjamin, "There's Something Happening Here," Salon.com (2 Nov 2006) <link>.

Brittany Sauser, "A Dangerous Step toward Space Warfare," Technology Review (27 Oct 2006) <link>.

William E. Odom (Lt. Gen. ret.), "How to Cut and Run," LA Times (31 Oct 2006) <link>.

Michael R. Gordon, "Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq toward Chaos," NY Times (1 Nov 2006) <link>.

Trudy Rubin, "U.S. Blunders in Reconstructing Iraq Are Staggering," Philadelphia Inquirer (29 Oct 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Third and Final Act" [On War #190], Free Congress Foundation (31 Oct 2006) <link>, also Antiwar.com (31 Oct 2006) <link>.

Charles McGrath, "Translating Virgil's Epic Poem of Empire" [R. Fagles], NY Times (30 Oct 2006) <link>.

Jim Wolf, "Pentagon Expands War-Funding Push," Washington Post (27 Oct 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Strategic Counter-offensive" [On War #189], Free Congress Foundation (27 Oct 2006) <link>.

Anthony Shadid, "This is Baghdad. What Could Be Worse?" Washington Post (29 Oct 2006) <link>.

Victor N. Corpus, "America's Acupuncture Points, Part 1: Striking America Where It Hurts," Asia Times (19 Oct 2006) <link>, "... Part 2: The Assassin's Mace," ibid. (20 Oct 2006) <link>.

Michael Yon, "Censoring Iraq," Weekly Standard 12.7 (30 Oct 2006) <link>.

George Monbiot, "The Disneyfication of War Allows Us to Ignore Its Real Savagery," The Guardian (24 Oct 2006) <link>.

Austin Bay, "A Strategic Lunch with Mr. Rumsfeld," Creators Syndicate (25 Oct 2006) <link>.

Christopher Griffin, "Japan's Quiet Revolution," Weekly Standard (26 Oct 2006) <link>.

Timothy Garton Ash, "If We Miss This Last Chance, Then Our Soldiers Will Have Died in Vain," The Guardian (26 Oct 2006) <link>.

Garrison Keillor, "The Upside of Terror," Salon.com (25 Oct 2006) <link>.

Jonah Goldberg, "Iraq Was a Worthy Mistake," Nat'l Review (20 Oct 2006) <link>.

Andrew Sullivan, "Iraq Is No Vietnam—It's Far Worse Than That," [London] Times Online (22 Oct 2006) <link>.

Bassam Haddad, "The War down the Street," Columbia Journalism Review (Sep/Oct 2006) <link>.

Christian Cotroneo, "Military March Madness," Toronto Star (15 Oct 2006) <link>.

Charles Peña, "Fish or Cut Bait in Iraq," Antiwar.com (25 Oct 2006) <link>.

Peggy Rosenthal, "Singing of War: Why There's a Course on War Poetry at West Point," Books & Culture 12.6 (Nov/Dec 2006) 8 <link>.

George Packer, "Alternative Realities," New Yorker (30 Oct 2006) <link>.

Ajai Sahni, "Gross Stupidity in Afghanistan," Asia Times (25 Oct 2006) <link>.

Fredric Smoler, "Alternate History: After the Nazis Won World War II," American Heritage (21 Oct 2006) <link>.

Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-Fadhily, "Government Death Squads Ravaging Baghdad," AlterNet (23 Oct 2006) <link>.

Robyn E. Blumner, "We Sentenced Japanese for This," St. Petersburg Times (22 Oct 2006) <link>.

Staughton Lynd, "Soldiers of Conscience," The Nation (19 Oct 2006) <link>.

Jörg Blech, "The Polytrauma of War: Severity of Injuries Requires New Forms of Rehabilitation," Spiegel Online (23 Oct 2006) <link>.

Scott McConnell, "Breaking the Silence: The Debate Ignited by Walt and Mearsheimer Gathers Momentum," American Conservative (6 Nov 2006) <link>.

Matthew Parris, "Time for the Neocons to Admit That the Iraq War Was Wrong from the Start," [London] Times Online (21 Oct 2006) <link>.

Jeff Severns Guntzel, "By Bush's Own Measure: Failure in Iraq," Electronic Iraq (20 Oct 2006) <link>.

Sean Smith, dir., Iraq: The Real Story, at Guardian Unlimited (22 Oct 2006) <link>.

Gareth Porter, "Iraq: Leave or Be Forced Out," TomPaine.com (17 Oct 2006) <link>.

Leon Hadar, "George Winston Bush?" American Conservative (23 Oct 2006) <link>.

Ed O'Keefe, "Bush Accepts Iraq-Vietnam Comparison," ABC News (18 Oct 2006) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "On the Offense," American Conservative (23 Oct 2006) <link>.

P. J. Capelotti, "Rock in the Fuselage" [abstract], Archaeology 59.6 (Nov/Dec 2006) <link>.

Marwan Bishara, "US: World Empire of Chaos," Le Monde diplomatique (Oct 2006) <link>.

John Mueller, "Is There Still a Terrorist Threat? The Myth of the Omnipresent Enemy," Foreign Affairs (Sep/Oct 2006) <link>.

Douglas McCollam, "The Umbrella’s Shadow," Foreign Policy (Oct 2006) <link>.

Dan Murphy, "Iraq Casualty Figures Open Up New Battleground," CS Monitor (13 Oct 2006) <link>.

Edward Epstein, "Iraq Amputee Vivid Champion of Dems' Hopes Illinois Political Novice Exemplifies Party's New Energy," San Francisco Chronicle (17 Oct 2006) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "Is the Bush Doctrine Dead?" Antiwar.com (17 Oct 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Barbarians at the Gates" [On War #188], Free Congress Foundation (16 Oct 2006) <link>.

Ximena Ortiz, "W. the Man," Nat'l Interest Online (12 Oct 2006) <link>.

John P. Murtha, "Confessions of a 'Defeatocrat,'" Washington Post (15 Oct 2006) <link>.

Karen Kwiatkowski, "The Bush Legacy, or the Modern American Standard?" MilitaryWeek.com (9 Oct 2006) <link>.

Dahr Jamail, "Excess Death in Iraq," Antiwar.com (14 Oct 2006) <link>.

Richard F. Welch, "America's Civil War: Why the Irish Fought for the Union," Civil War Times (Oct 2006) <link>.

James W. Shosenberg, "Battle of Jena: Napoleon's Double Knock-out Punch," Military History (Oct 2006) <link>.

Robert Mulcahy, "Interview with Rolf Hertenstein: A World War II Panzerman in Poland and France," World War II (Oct 2006) <link>.

Stanley C. Jersey, "Ordinary Marines: Guadalcanal’s Lonely Patrol during World War II," World War II (Oct 2006) <link>.

Georg Mascolo, "'A Systematic State of Denial'" [interview with Bob Woodward], Spiegel Online (10 Oct 2006) <link>.

Robert Harris, "The 'War on Terror' That Ruined Rome," Int'l Herald Tribune (1 Oct 2006) [orig. NY Times, 30 Sep 2006] <link>.

Alastair Crooke & Mark Perry, "How Hezbollah Defeated Israel, Part 1: Winning the Intelligence War," Asia Times (12 Oct 2006) <link>.

Yitzhak Benhorin, "US General: Strikes on Iran Possible by 2007," ynetnews.com (12 Oct 2006) <link>.

"General Seeks UK Iraq Withdrawal," BBC News (12 Oct 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Four More Years?" Salon.com (12 Oct 2006) <link>.

"The Underwater Airship: Uncovering the USS Macon," Spiegel Online (6 Oct 2006) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Why We Still Fight" [On War #187], Free Congress Foundation (11 Oct 2006) <link> & Antiwar.com (12 Oct 2006) <link>.

Kathy Kelly, "When Evil Doing Comes Like Falling Rain," electronicIraq.net (10 Oct 2006) <link>.

Robert D. Kaplan, "When North Korea Falls," Atlantic Monthly (Oct 2006) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "Losing the Will to Fight," American Conservative (9 Oct 2006) <link>.

Stephen M. Walt, "Misreading the Tea Leaves: US Missteps on Foreign Policy," Boston Globe (5 Oct 2006) <link>.

John Prados, "Rice's Lost Credibility," TomPaine.com (5 Oct 2006) <link>.

Catherine Lutz, "A US 'Invasion' of Korea," Common Dreams (7 Oct 2006) [orig. Boston Globe] <link>.

Chris Floyd, "War in Heaven: Woodward's Book and the Establishment Insurgency," LewRockwell.com (3 Oct 2006) <link>.

David Enders, "Will Iraq Be the Next 'Forgotten War'?" Electronic Iraq (3 Oct 2006) <link>.

Bob Woodward, "Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism," Washington Post (1 Oct 2006) <link>.

Sue Diaz, "A Soldier Returns ... and His Mom Hopes for Meaning," CS Monitor (3 Oct 2006) <link>.

Fred Reed, "Not Today, Sir (Awaiting the Rebellion)" mensnewsdaily.com (1 Oct 2006) <link>.

Frederick W. Kagan & William Kristol, "More Troops: The Consensus for a Larger Army Is About As Complete As It Could Be," Weekly Standard 12.3 (2 Oct 2006) <link>.

Joan Didion, "Cheney: The Fatal Touch," NY Review of Books (5 Oct 2006) <link>.

Graham Allison, "The Ongoing Failure of Imagination," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 62.5 (Sep/Oct 2006) 36-41 <link>.

Niall Ferguson, "Empires with Expiration Dates," Foreign Policy (Sep/Oct 2006) <link>.

William M. Arkin, "The Continuing Misuses of Fear," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 62.5 (Sep/Oct 2006) 42-45 <link>.

Reviews

Gabor Agoston, Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), review by Tom Lewis, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Gary Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (NY: Viking, 2005), review by Jason Dutch Palmer, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Sheila Dillon & Katherine E. Welch, edd., Representations of War in Ancient Rome (NY: Cambridge U Pr, 2006), review by Joseph Frechette, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Priscilla Bond, A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond, ed. Kimberly Harrison (Baton Rouge: LSU Pr, 2006), review by Jennifer Ann Newman, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Thomas P. Lowry, Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Pr, 2006), review by Ethan S. Rafuse, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Richard A. Sauers, Meade: Victor of Gettysburg (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2003), review by Eric A. Campbell, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Grady McWhiney, The Civil War: A Concise Account by a Noted Southern Historian (Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Pr, 2005), review by Barton A. Myers, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Merrill D. Peterson, John Brown: The Legend Revisited (Charlottesville: U Virginia Pr, 2002), review by Russell Blake, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Thomas A. Desjardin, These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory (Cambridge: Da Capo, 2003), review by Jeffrey Kosiorek, H-Net Reviews (Nov 2006) <link>.

Wilmer Jones, Generals in Blue and Gray, vol. 1: Lincoln's Generals, vol. 2: Davis's Generals (Westport: Praeger, 2004), review by John D. Fowler, H-Net Reviews (Nov 2006) <link>.

David Madden, ed., Thomas Wolfe's Civil War (Tuscaloosa: U Alabama Pr, 2004), review by Wolfgang Hochbruck, H-Net Reviews (Nov 2006) <link>.

Andrew S. Coopersmith, Fighting Words: An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War (NY & London: New Press, 2004), review by Jason M. Frawley, H-Net Reviews (Nov 2006) <link>.

Gabor Agoston, Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), review by Tom Lewis, H-Net Reviews (Dec 2006) <link>.

Guy Westwell, War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line (London: Wallflower, 2006), review by Lisa Mundey, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Richard J. Shuster, German Disarmament after World War I: The Diplomacy of International Arms Inspection, 1920-1931 (London & New York: Routledge, 2006), review by Bianka J. Adams, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Larry Zuckerman, The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I (NY: NYU Pr, 2004), review by Jonathan Epstein, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Michael Lower, The Barons Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences (Philadelphia: U Penn Pr, 2005), review by Sarah Lambert, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Joseph Balkoski, Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944 (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2005), review by Christopher Koontz, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

John R. Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2005), review by Lisa M. Budreau, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

David Bullock & Andrei Aksenov, Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: White and Allied (Oxford: Osprey, 2003), review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (24 Dec 2006) <link>.

Zainab Salbi, The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope (Washington: Nat'l Geographic, 2006), review by Lori Grinker, LA Times (24 Dec 2006) <link>.

Ian W. Toll, Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy (NY: Norton, 2006), reviews by Michael Kenney, Boston Globe (19 Dec 2006) <link> & Edward Sheehy, Phila Inquirer (26 Dec 2006) <link>.

Gene Boyt & David L. Burch, Bataan: A Survivor’s Story (Norman, OK: U Oklahoma Pr, 2005), review by Steve Leonard, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 108 <link>.

William R. Haycraft, Unraveling Vietnam: How American Arms and Diplomacy Failed in Southeast Asia (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2006), review by Paul B. Gardner, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 108 <link>.

Marco Palacios, Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002 (Durham, NC: Duke U Pr, 2006), review by John C. Barbee, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 107-108 <link>.

Keir Lieber, War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Pr, 2005), review by S. Mike Pavelec, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 106-107 <link>.

Sean M. Maloney, Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan (Washington, DC; Potomac, 2005), review by Lester W. Grau, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 106 <link>.

Robert D. Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Pr, 2006), review by Robert Baumann, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 105-106 <link>.

T. Christian Miller, Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq (NY: Little, Brown, 2006), review by James E. Varner, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 104-105 <link>.

Bruce Bawer, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Westminster, MD: Doubleday, 2006), review by Robert L. Maginnis, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2006) 103-104 <link>.

Clint Eastwood, dir., Letters from Iwo Jima, review by A.O. Scott, NY Times (20 Dec 2006) <link>.

Michael K. Jones, Agincourt 1415 (South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword, 2006), review by Lee P. Ruddin, De Re Militari (Dec 2006) <link>.

Norman Housely, Contesting the Crusades (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006), review by Timothy May, De Re Militari (Dec 2006) <link>.

Larry Smith, The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words (NY: Norton, 2006), review by Richard Bledsoe, Armchair General (15 Dec 2006) <link>.

Michael Bess, Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II (NY: Knopf, 2006) & Sebag-Montefiore, Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Pr, 2006), review by Andrew Roberts, NY Sun (13 Dec 2006) <link>.

Ian W. Toll, Six Frigates: How Piracy, War and British Supremacy at Sea Gave Birth to the World's Most Powerful Navy (NY: Norton, 2006), review by Tim Gardam, The Observer (17 Dec 2006) <link>.

Rosemary Sullivan, Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille (NY: Harper Collins, 2006), review by Bernhardt Blumenthal, Phila Inquirer (17 Dec 2006) <link>.

W. Eric Emerson, Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War (Columbia: U South Carolina Pr, 2005), review by Richard B. McCaslin, H-Net Reviews (Nov 2006) <link>.

Stephen D. Engle, Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth (Lincoln: U Nebraska Pr, 2001), review by Samuel C. Hyde, H-Net Reviews (Nov 2006) <link>.

Daniel J. Hoisington, ed., Gettysburg and the Christian Commission (Roseville, MN: Edinborough Pr, 2002), review by David A. Raney, H-Net Reviews (Nov 2006) <link>.

William Caferro, John Hawkwood, An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy (Baltimore: John Hopkins U Pr, 2006), review by Stephen Cooper, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Robert Forczyk, Moscow 1941: Hitler's First Defeat (Oxford: Osprey, 2006), review by Gerard A. Proudfoot, Armchair General (10 Dec 2006) <link>.

H.W. Crocker III, Don't Tread on Me: A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting (NY: Crown Forum, 2006), review by John Rossi, Phila Inquirer (10 Dec 2006) <link>.

Colin Beavan, Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America’s First Shadow War (NY: Viking, 2006), review by Rick Baillergeon, Armchair General (1 Dec 2006) <link>.

Fred Pelka, ed., The Civil War Letters of Colonel Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps (Amherst, MA: U Mass Pr, 2004), review by Charles R. Bowery, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Tim McKinney, The Civil War in Greenbrier County West Virginia (Charleston, WV: Quarrier Pr, 2004), review by Robert N. Thompson, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Anthony J. Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005), review by James J. Bloom, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Gabor Boritt, The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006), review by Chuck Leddy, Phila Inquirer (3 Dec 2006) <link>.

Noah Feldman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton: Princeton U Pr, 2006 [2004], review by David Gordon, Ludwig v. Mises Inst. (30 Nov 2006) <link>.

Discovery Channel, The Art of War: Alexander the Great (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2004), review by William S. Morison, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.12.03 <link>.

Rosemary Sullivan, Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille (NY: HarperCollins, 2006), review by Michael Kenney, Boston Globe (28 Nov 2006) <link>.

Dorothy Fall, Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar (Dulles, VA: Potomac, 2006), review by John Greenya, Washington Times (26 Nov 2006) <link>.

Mark Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Cambridge: Cambridge U Pr, 2006), review by John M. Taylor, Washington Times (19 Nov 2006) <link>.

"Iraq: The War of the Imagination" [Bob Woodward, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006); Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies since 9/11 (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006); James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (NY: Free Press, 2006)], reviews by Mark Danner, NYRB 53.20 (21 Dec 2006) <link>.

Andrew Carroll, ed., Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families (NY: Random House, 2006), review by Nathaniel Fick, Washington Post (19 Nov 2006) <link>.

Stephen Grey, Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program (NY: St. Martin's, 2006), review by Evan Thomas, Washington Post (14 Nov 2006) <link>.

Michael Weisskopf, Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57 (NY: Holt, 2006), review by Jonathan Kaplan, Washington Post (1 Nov 2006) <link>.

Michael Jung, Marathon und Plataiai: Zwei Perserschlachten als "lieux de mémoire" im antiken Griechenland (Göttingen:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006), review by John Dayton, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.11.14 <link>.

Edward Humes, Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream (NY: Harcourt, 2006), review by Steve Weinberg, Chicago Sun-Times (12 Nov 2006) <link>.

D.J. Woolliscroft & B. Hoffmann, Rome's First Frontier: The Flavian Occupation of Northern Scotland (Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2006), review by Brad Eden, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.11.17 <link>.

Bill Gertz, Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets—and How We Let It Happen (NY: Crown Forum, 2006), review by Joseph C. Goulden, Washington Times (12 Nov 2006) <link>.

John Sadler, Flodden 1513: Scotland's Greatest Defeat (Oxford: Osprey, 2006), review by Duncan Rice, Armchair General (8 Nov 2006) <link>.

Edward J. Blum, Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Baton Rouge: LSU Pr, 2005), review by S-M. Grant, H-Net Reviews (Oct 2006) <link>.

Martha Hodes, The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (NY: Norton, 2006), review by Stacy A. Teicher, CS Monitor (7 Nov 2006) <link>.

Dominic D.P. Johnson & Dominic Tierney, Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Pr, 2006), review by Carlin Romano, Phila Inquirer (5 Nov 2006) <link>.

Clint Eastwood, dir., Flags of Our Fathers (2006), reviews by Todd McCarthy, Variety (9 Oct 2006) <link>, Manohla Dargas, NY Times (20 Oct 2006) <link>, David Ansen, Newsweek (23 Oct 2006) <link>, & Chris Holoka, Toshistation.com (6 Nov 2006) <link>.

Christian G. Appy, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides (NY: Penguin, 2003), review by Jon Swain, [London] Times Online (29 Oct 2006) <link>.

Lawrence V. Mott, Sea Power in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Catalan-Aragonese Fleet in the War of the Sicilian Vespers (Gainesville: U Pr of Florida, 2003), review by Donald J. Kagay, De Re Miltari (Oct 2006) <link>.

Günter Grass, Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (Göttingen: Steidl, 2006), review by Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books 28.21 (2 Nov 2006) <link>.

Bob Woodward, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006), reviews by Peter Grier, CS Monitor (24 Oct 2006) <link>, Martin Amis, [London] Times Online (21 Oct 2006) <link>, Doug Bandow, Antiwar.com (27 Oct 2006) <link>, & John Weisman, Washington Times (5 Nov 2006) <link>.

Anatol Lieven & John Hulsman, Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World (NY: Pantheon, 2006), review by Scott McConnell, American Conservative (23 Oct 2006) <link>.

Sidney Blumenthal, How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (Princeton: Princeton U Pr, 2006), review by David Gordon, Lew Rockwell.com (20 Oct 2006) <link>.

Josiah Osgood, Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge U Pr, 2006), review by J. A. Lobur, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.10.30 <link>.

Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War (NY: Oxford U Pr, 2006), review by Henry A. Kissinger, NY Times (15 Oct 2006) <link>.

Nicholas J. Saunders, Alexander's Tomb: The Two Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conqueror (NY: Perseus, 2006), review by Bob Brier, Archaeology 59.6 (Nov/Dec 2006) <link>.

Edward Humes, Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream (NY: Harcourt, 2006), review by Roger K. Miller, Washington Times (8 Oct 2006) <link>.

Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus (New Have: Yale U Pr, 2006), review by Blake D. Dvorak, Washington Times (8 Oct 2006) <link>.

Michael Isikoff & David Corn, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (NY: Crown, 2006), review by Martin Kettle, Washington Post (15 Oct 2006) <link>.

Mark Matthews, Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line: Conscientious Objectors During World War II (Norman: U Okla Pr, 2006), review by Larry Sears, CS Monitor (3 Oct 2006) <link>.

David Kenyon Webster, Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich, rev. ed. (NY: Delta, 2002), review by Jeff Cherpeski, Armchair General (11 Oct 2006) <link>.

Dick Winters & Cole C. Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (NY: Berkley, 2006), review by C.D. Bledsoe, Armchair General (4 Oct 2006) <link>.

Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell (NY: Knopf, 2006), reviews by Tim Rutten, LA Times (9 Oct 2006) <link>, George Packer, Washington Post (15 Oct 2006) <link>, Jospeh Lelyveld, NYRB 53.17 (2 Nov 2006) <link>, & Michael Lewis, NY Times (26 Nov 2006) <link>.

Matthew Currier Burden, The Blog of War:
Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers
in Iraq and Afghanistan (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006), review by Mark Yost, Phila Inquirer (8 Oct 2006) <link>.

Anthony Feinstein, Journalists under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Pr, 2006), review by Carlin Romano, Phila Inquirer (8 Oct 2006) <link>.

Matthew Hughes & Gaynor Johnson, Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age (NY: Frank Cass, 2005), review by Andrew M. Roe, Military Review (Sep/Oct 2006) 120 <link>.

Michael D. Krause & R. Cody Phillips, edd., Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art (Washington: Center of Military History, 2005), review by Christopher E. Bailey, Military Review (Sep/Oct 2006) 119-120 <link>.

Dennis J. Blasko, The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century (NY: Routledge, 2006), review by Prisco R. Hernández, Military Review (Sep/Oct 2006) 118-119 <link>.

Shaul Shay, The Axis of Evil: Iran, Hizballah, and the Palestinian Terror (Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2004), review by Robert M. Cassidy, Military Review (Sep/Oct 2006) 118 <link>.

Alan M. Dershowitz, Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (NY: Norton, 2006), review by John Yoo, Clarement Review (Fall 2006) <link>.

John Yoo, War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (NY: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2006), review by James Bovard, American Conservative (9 Oct 2006) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (NY: Penguin, 2006), reviews by Daniel Byman, Washington Post (30 Jul 2006) <link>, Tony Perry, Newsday.com (27 Aug 2006) <link>, Brian C. McNerney, Military Review (Sep/Oct 2006) 115-116 <link>, and Brad Knickerbocker, CS Monitor (17 Oct 2006) <link>.

George Packer, The Assassin's Gate (NY: FS&G, 2005), reviews by Peter W. Galbraith, NY Review of Books 53.4 (9 Mar 2006) <link> & George W. Ridge, Military Review (Sep/Oct 2006) 116-117 <link>.