Archives: Oct-Nov-Dec 2008
 
Articles

Gordon Lubold, "A Surge of Special Forces for Afghanistan Likely," CS Monitor (23 Dec 2008) <link>.

"Burma's Stilwell Road: A Backbreaking WWII Project Is Revived," LA Times (30 Dec 2008) <link>.

Scott Horton, "Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration," Harper's (Dec 2008) <link>.

Andrew Bacevich, "Afghanistan: What's Our Definition of Victory?" Newsweek (8 Dec 2008) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq," TomDispatch (20 Nov 2008) <link>.

"After Action Report—General Barry R. McCaffrey USA (Ret): VISIT IRAQ AND KUWAIT 31 OCTOBER--6 NOVEMBER 2008" (10 Nov 2008) <link>.

Penny Coleman, "U.S. Still Losing a Brigade's Worth of Vets Every Year to Suicide," AlterNet (13 Nov 2008) <link>.

Andrew Bacevich, "Evangelical Foreign Policy Is Over," Boston Globe (6 Nov 2008) <link>.

"Ted Biggs" [obit.], The Economist (23 Oct 2008) <link>.

David Crossland, "The Lethal Legacy of World War II: Unexploded Bombs in Germany," Spiegel Online (14 Oct 2008) <link>.

"Ten National Security Myths," by the editors, The Nation (17 Sep 2008) <link>.

Aaron Glantz, "Revelations of an Abu Ghraib Interrogator," Antiwar.com (6 Sep 2008) <link>.

Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O'Hanlon, & Kenneth M. Pollack, "How to Leave a Stable Iraq: Building on Progress," Foreign Affairs (Sep/Oct 2008) <link>.

Richard Holbrooke, "The Next President: Mastering a Daunting Agenda," Foreign Affairs (Sep/Oct 2008) <link>.

John Lewis Gaddis, "Ending Tyranny: The Past and Future of an Idea," American Interest Online 4.1 (Sep/Oct 2008) <link>.


Reviews

Keith Yellin, Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership (Columbia: U South Carolina Pr, 2008), review by Gregory S. Aldrete, BMCR (2008.11.32) <link>.

W.S. Hanson, et al., Elginhaugh: A Flavian Fort and Its Annexe, 2 vols. (London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2007), review by Philippe Charlier, BMCR (2008.11.25) <link>.

Raymond Van Dam, The Roman Revolution of Constantine (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), review by Andrea Sterk, BMCR 2008.11.16 <link>.

David Loyn, Butcher and Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Failure in Afghanistan (London: Hutchinson, 2008), review by John Sweeney, New Statesman (23 Oct 2008) <link>.

Victor H. Mair, trans., The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods (NY: Columbia U Pr, 2007), review by Eva Goldschmidt, HNR (Sep 2008) <link>.

Kaveh Farrokh, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War (Oxford: Osprey, 2007), review by Jona Lendering, BMCR 2008.09.62 <link>.

Mary Beard, The Roman Triumph (Cambridge, MA: HUP, 2007), review by F.J. Vervaet, BMCR 2008.09.39 <link>.

John D. Grainger, Alexander the Great Failure: The Collapse of the Macedonian Empire (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007), review by Waldemar Heckel, BMCR 2008.09.30 <link>.

Åsne Seierstad, The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War (NY: Basic Books, 2008), review by Marjorie Kehe, CS Monitor (18 Sep 2008) <link>.

Gary J. Bass, Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention (NY: Knopf, 2008), review by Matthew Price, The National (12 Sep 2008) <link>.

Richard Stoneman, Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend (New Haven, CT: Yale U Pr, 2008), review by Dawn L. Gilley, BMCR 2008.09.19 <link>.

Sara Elise Phang, Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate (Cambridge: CUP, 2008), review by Josh Levithan, BMCR 2008.09.14 <link>.