Archives: Apr-May-Jun 2004
 
Articles

Sydney J. Freedberg, "A Military Stretched Thin," National Journal (25 Jun 2004) <link>.

"Journalism and the War: What Went Wrong? Fallows, Krugman, Massing, Lemann, Gladstone, and Varadarajan," Columbia Journalism Review [two-hour RealPlayer audio of panel discussion on 21 Jun 2004] <link>.

Joanne Barkan, "Spain, Italy, Peace, and Terror," Dissent (Spr 2004) <link>.

Sage Stossel, "In the Line of Fire" [interview with journalist Robert D. Kaplan, who "joined U.S. Marines as they stormed Fallujah, and returned to share his impressions"], Atlantic Unbound (15 Jun 2004) <link>.

Matthew Barganier, "The Honest Case for War: How It Might Have Sounded," Antiwar.com (23 Jun 2004) <link>.

Howard Kurtz, "O'Reilly's 'No-Spin' Control Prompts Guest to Cry Foul," WashingtonPost.com (30 Jun 2004) <link>.

Juan Cole, "The New and Improved Iraq," In These Times (22 Jun 2004) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson, "US Military Lowers Profile in Iraq," Christian Science Monitor (30 Jun 2004) <link>.

Brendan Miniter, "Weapons in the Warehouse," OpinionJournal [WSJ] (29 Jun 2004) <link>.

John Gartner, "Solar to Keep Army on the Go," Wired (29 Jun 2004) <link>.

Jim Sleeper, "Thucydiots," American Prospect (25 Jun 2004) <link>.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, "Right Man's Burden: Why Empire Enthusiast Niall Ferguson Won't Change His Mind," Washington Monthly (Jun 2004) <link>.

Robert Feleppa, "Black Rain: Reflections on Hiroshima and Nuclear War in Japanese Film," Cross Currents 54.1 (Spr 2004) <link>.

William Nolte, "Keeping Pace with the Revolution in Military Affairs," Studies in Intelligence 48.1 (2004) <link>.

Victor D. Hanson, "The Fruits of Appeasement," City Journal (Spr 2004) <link>.

Owen Harries, "The Perils of Hegemony," American Conservative (21 Jun 2004) <link>.

Niall Ferguson, "The End of Power," OpinionJournal [WSJ] (21 Jun 2004) <link>.

Sage Stossel, "In the Line of Fire" [Fallujah; interview with Robert D. Kaplan], Atlantic Unbound (15 Jun 2004) <link>.

Pepe Escobar, "Iraq As the 51st State" [interview with Juan Cole], Asia Times (18 Jun 2004) <link>.

The Editors, "Were We Wrong?" New Republic Online (28 (Jun 2004) <link>.

Kyle Tucker, "Bush, Veterans, & the Confederacy," Z Magazine 17.6 (Jun 2004) <link>.

Lucinda Marshall, "Militarism and Violence Against Women," Z Magazine 17.4 (Apr 2004) <link>.

David C. Hendrickson, "A Dissenter's Guide to Foreign Policy," World Policy Journal 21.1 (Spr 2004) <link>.

Scott Peterson, "Back to the Future: New US—Russia Arms Race," Christian Science Monitor (16 Jun 2004) <link>.

Clive Davis, "False WWI Myths Dispelled, War of Ideas Set Adrift," Washington Times (16 May 2004) <link>.

Richard M. Watt, "The Warsaw Insurrection," Washington Times (9 May 2004) <link>.

Victor David Hanson, "Feeding the Minotaur: Our Strange Relationship with the Terrorists Continues," National Review Online (14 Jun 2004) <link>.

Ignacio Ramonet, "Torture in a Good Cause" [trans. Ed Emery], Le Monde diplomatique (Jun 2004) <link>.

Bruce Berkowitz, "Intelligence Reform: Less is More," Hoover Digest (Spr 2004) <link>.

Nonna Gorilovskaya, "Imperial Denial" [interview with Niall Ferguson], MotherJones.com (21 May 2004) <link>.

Michael Lind, "Churchill for Dummies" [viz., neocons], The Spectator (24 Apr 2004) <link>.

James Pinkerton, "Divide Civilian, Military Roles in Iraq," Newsday (6 May 2004) <link>.

Paul Wolfowitz, "The Road Map for a Sovereign Iraq," OpinionJournal [WSJ] (9 Jun 2004) <link>.

Pentagon Memo of 6 Mar 2003 Legitimizing Torture, Wall Street Journal Online (9 Jun 2004) <link>; related items: Jim Lobe, "How High Does the Abu Ghraib Scandal Go?" Antiwar.com (8 Jun 2004) <link>, Juan Cole, "Torturegate, G8, and the Greater Middle East," Informed Comment (9 Jun 2004) <link>.

Andie Tucher. "Soldiers' Tales: 'What Did You Do in the War, Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandpa?'" Common-place 4.3 (Apr 2004) <link>.

Oscar R. Estrada, "The Military: Losing Hearts and Minds?" WashingtonPost.com (6 Jun 2004) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Wars Put Strain on National Guard," WashingtonPost.com (6 Jun 2004) <link>.

The Editors, "The Times and Iraq," NY Times (26 May 2004) <link>; "Sample of the Coverage" <link>.

Paul Johnson, "D-Day: The Liberation of Europe Has Lessons for Today's War Leaders," OpinionJournal [WSJ] (3 Jun 2004) <link>.

Brad Knickerbocker, "Military's Officer Corps: Too Political?" Christian Science Monitor (28 May 2004) <link>.

Philip Hammond, "Postmodernity Goes to War," Spiked (1 Jun 2004) <link>.

Charles Paul Freund, "War Party: Memorials, Monuments, and the Complications of Memory," Reason (26 May 2004) <link>.

Joseph E. Lowry, "The Bloody Charge of the 1st Maine," Washington Times (8 May 2004) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Where Does Iraq Stand among U.S. Wars?" [in casualties], WashingtonPost.com (31 May 2004) <link>.

Wesley K. Clark, "Key to Success," New Republic (7 Jun 2004) <link>.

Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr., "Iraq: The Price," National Journal (28 May 2004) <link>.

Clive Cook, "The War in Iraq and the Wisdom of Hindsight," National Journal (28 May 2004) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Portrait of a Rebellion: Shiite Insurgency in Iraq Bedevils U.S.," In These Times (24 May 2004) <link>.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "Cold Turkey," In These Times (10 May 2004) <link>.

Esther Pan, "Iraq: Military Outsourcing," Council on Foreign Relations (20 May 2004) <link>.

Madelaine Drohan, "Non-Profit Mercenaries," The Walrus (Jun 2004) <link>.

Stuart Taylor, "Must We Become More Like Babarians?" National Journal (17 May 2004) <link>.

Chris Holoka, "Troy: Hollywood vs. Homer" [May 2004] <link>.

Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Torture of Others," NY Times Magazine (23 May 2004) <link>.

Joe Galloway, "Stressed Army Desperate for Warm Bodies," Military.com (20 May 2004) <link>.

Gen. Anthony Zinni, "10 Mistakes History will Record about War in Iraq," Center for Defense Information (17 May 2004) <link>.

David Enders, "Learning Lessons of War on the Streets of Baghdad," The Chronicle Review (21 May 2004) <link>.

Seymour Hersh, "The Gray Zone: How a Secret Pentagon Program Came to Abu Ghraib," New Yorker (24 May 2004) <link>.

Joseph I. Lieberman, "'Let Us Have Faith': Why Rumsfeld Must Stay," OpinionJournal [WSJ] (14 May 2004) <link>.

George P. Schultz, "The War on Terror: A Changed World," Hoover Digest (Spr 2004) <link>.

Ian Brown, "Lessons from Homer," Globe and Mail (15 May 2004) <link>.

Sidney Blumenthal, "America's Military Coup," Guardian Unlimited (13 May 2004) <link>.

Jose Ramos-Horta, "Sometimes, a War Saves People," OpinionJournal [WSJ] (13 May 2004) <link>.

Transcript of Senate Panel Hearings on Iraq Abuse, NY Times (11 May 2004) <link>.

Juan Cole, "US Failure Helps Revive the Old Pan-Islamic Project," Le Monde diplomatique (May 2004) <link>.

Euan Ferguson, "On the Beaches" [Normandy], Guardian Unlimited (9 May 2004) <link>.

Michael Richardson, "A New Coalition to Keep WMD Out of Terrorists' Hands," YaleGlobal (10 May 2004) <link>.

Riaz Hassan, "Suicide Bombers Driven More by Politics Than Religious Fundamentalism," Electronic Intifada (7 May 2004) <link>.

Peter Galbraith, "How to Get Out of Iraq," NY Books 51.8 (13 May 2004) <link>.

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's Report on Prisoner Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison [2004] <link>.

Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker and Maj. Anthony W. Vassalo, "The Way Ahead," Military Review 84.2 (Mar/Apr 2004) <link>.

Michael Ignatieff, "Lesser Evils," NY Times (2 May 2004) <link>.

Henning Hoff, "Joachim Fest: One Man's War for Truth," Independent.co.uk (30 Apr 2004) <link>.

Seymour M. Hersh, "Torture at Abu Ghraib," New Yorker (10 May 2004) <link>.

Maureen Dowd, "Wolfie's Fuzzy Math," NY Times (2 May 2004) <link>.

Robert Kagan, "Too Few Troops," Weekly Standard (26 Apr 2004) <link>.

Juan Cole, "U.S. Mistakes in Iraq," Antiwar.com (21 Apr 2004) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "Custer Battles Iraqis in Alamo," TomDispatch.com (25 Apr 2004) <link>, also at History News Network (26 Apr 2004) <link>.

Manfred Korfmann, "Was There a Trojan War?" Archaeology 57.3 (May/Jun 2004) <link>.

Phillip Carter, "Be Unprepared," The American Prospect Online (20 Apr 2004) <link>.

Victor D. Hanson, "Myth or Reality? Will Iraq Work? That's Up to Us," National Review Online (23 Apr 2004) <link>.

David Greenberg, "Saigon and Saddam: The Use and Abuse of Vietnam Analogies," MSN Slate (19 Apr 2004) <link>.

William J. Broad, "Vast and Deadly Fleets May Yield Secrets at Last" [Persian War era], NY Times (20 Apr 2004) <link>.

G. John Ikenberry, "Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order," Foreign Affairs (Mar/Apr 2004) <link>.

Greg Sheridan, "In the Lair of the Wolf" [Paul Wolfowitz], The Australian (17 Apr 2004) <link>.

NPR "Fresh Air" interview with U/M Prof. Juan Cole (13 Apr 2004) <link>.

Seymour M. Hersh, "The Other War: Why Bush's Afghanistan Problem Won't Go Away," New Yorker (12 Apr 2004) <link>.

Brian Fleming, "Can Reading Clausewitz Save Us from Future Mistakes?" Parameters 34.1 (Spr 2004) 62-76 <link>.

Reviews

John Crawford and Ian McGibbon, eds., One Flag, One Queen, One Tongue: New Zealand, the British Empire and the South African War, 1899-1902( Auckland: Auckland U Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Soenke Neitzel, Kriegsausbruch: Deutschlands Weg in die Katastrophe 1900-1914: Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert (Munich: Pendo Verl., 2002), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Robert D. Billinger, Jr., Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida. Florida History and Culture Series (Gainesville: U Pr of Florida, 2000), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Christian Stadelmann and Regina Wonisch, eds., Brutale Neugier: Walter Henisch. Kriegsfotograf und Bildreporter (Vienna: Christian Brandstätter, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Steven E. Woodworth, Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Stephen L. Harris, Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I (Washington: Brassey's, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Matthew C. Ward, Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765 (Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Jerome A. Greene, Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876 (Norman: U Oklahoma Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Angel V. Shaw and Luis H. Francia, edd., Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999 (New York: NYU Pr, 2002), H-Net Reviews (Apr 2004) <link>.

Jonathan Schell, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003), American Outlook (Win 2004) <link>.

Lucas Delattre, Fritz Kolbe: Der wichtigste Spion des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Munich: Piper Verl., 2004), H-Net Reviews (Apr 2004) <link>.

Rosemarie Killius, Frauen für die Front: Gespräche mit Wehrmachtshelferinnen (Leipzig: Militzke Verl., 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Andrew Exum, This Man's Army: A Soldier's Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism (New York: Gotham, 2004), January Magazine (Jun 2004) <link>.

Paul Lerner, Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930 (Ithaca: Cornell U Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Apr 2004) <link>.

Mark Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (Philadelphia: U Penn Pr, 2004), FindLaw's Writ (18 Jun 2004) <link>.

Vasilis Vourkoutiotis, Prisoners of War and the German High Command: The British and American Experience (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jun 2004) <link>.

Thomas Parish, The Submarine: A History (New York: Viking, 2004), WashingtonPost.com (20 Jun 2004) <link>.

Albert Axell, Marshall Zhukov: The Man Who Beat Hitler (London: Longman, 2003), H-Net Reviews (May 2004) <link>.

John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (Cambridge: Harvard U Pr, 2004), economicprincipals.com (20 Jun 2004) <link>.

P George H. Cassar, Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914 to 1916 (Dulles, VA: Brassey's, 2004) <link>.

Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (New York: Penguin, 2004), NY Times (9 May 2004) <link>.

Joshua A. Sanborn, Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois U Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (May 2004) <link>.

Jan Stäcker, Princeps und miles: Studien zum Bindungs- und Nahverhältnis von Kaiser und Soldat im 1. und 2. Jahrhundert n.Chr. (Hildesheim: G. Olms, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.06.07 <link>.

Stacy Sullivan, Be Not Afraid, For You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War (New York: St. Martin's, 2004), WashingtonPost.com (13 Jun 2004) <link>.

Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004), San Francisco Chronicle (2 May 2004) <link>, WashingtonPost.com (9 May 2004) <link>, and Guardian Unlimited (5 Jun 2004) <link>.

Brian Lavery, Horatio Lord Nelson (New York: NYU Pr, 2003), International Journal of Naval History 2.3/3.1 (Dec 2003/Apr 2004) <link>.

Will Fowler, The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), International Journal of Naval History 2.3/3.1 (Dec 2003/Apr 2004) <link>.

Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (New York: Norton. 2003), Military History Quarterly (Spr 2004) <link>.

Erik Hildinger, Swords against the Senate: The Rise of the Roman Army and the Fall of the Republic (Cambridge: DaCapo Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (May 2004) <link>.

Thomas Childers, In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Journey through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany (New York: Henry Holt, 2003), American Spectator (4 Jun 2004) <link>.

Michael Dobbs, Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America (New York: Knopf, 2004), Commentary (Jun 2004) <link>.

Vincent J. Cirillo, Bullets and Bacilli: The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U Pr, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Apr 2004) <link>.

Gordon Craig, The Battle of Königgrätz: Prussia's Victory over Austria, 1866 (Philadelphia: U Penn Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (May 2004) <link>.

David H. Fischer, Washington's Crossing (Oxford: OUP, 2004), New Criterion 22.9 (May 2004) <link>.

Robert Boyce and Joseph A. Maiolo, edd., The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Apr 2004) <link>.

David Zucchino, Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad (New York: Atlantic Monthly Pr), WashingtonPost.com (9 May 2004) <link>.

Robert Citino, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare (Lawrence: U Pr Kansas, 2004), Washington Times (25 Apr 2004) <link -- scroll down>.

Bing West and Ray L. Smith, The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the First Marine Division (New York: Bantam, 2003), Policy Review (Apr/May 2004) <link>.

Adrienne Mayor, Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World (New York: Overlook, 2003), NY Times (7 Oct 2003) <link> Scholia Reviews 13 (2004) 24 <link>, and American Scientist (May/Jun 2004) <link>.