Archives: Apr-May-Jun 2006
 
Articles

David A. H. Wilson, "Avian Anti-Submarine Warfare Proposals in Britain, 1915-18: The Admiralty and Thomas Mills," Internat'l Journal  of Naval History 5.1 (Apr 2006) <link>.

Gregory Elder, "Intelligence in War: It Can Be Decisive," Studies in Intelligence 50.2 (2006) <link>.

Bill Wasik, moderator, "American Coup d'État" [forum discussion with Andrew J. Bacevich, Charles J. Dunlap, Richard H. Kohn, & Edward N. Luttwak], Harper's (Apr 2006) <link>.

Carl M. Cannon, "Why We Fight," National Journal (30 Jun 2006) <link>.

Bob Deans, "U.S. Losing Terror War because of Iraq, Poll Says," Columbus Dispatch (29 Jun 2006) <link>.

Tom Lasseter, "Intelligence Gathering in Iraq Relies on U.S. Soldiers' Detective Work," McClatchy Newspapers (28 Jun 2006) <link>.

Scott Ritter, "Three Iraq Myths That Won't Quit," AlterNet (26 Jun 2006) <link>.

Louise Roug & Doug Smith, "War's Iraqi Death Toll Tops 50,000," LA Times (25 Jun 2006) <link>.

Andrew McGregor, "Subverting the Sultan: British Arms Shipments to the Arabs of Darfur, 1915-16," MilitaryHistoryOnline.com (9 Jun 2006) <link>.

Brian J. Dickerson, "The Liberation of Western Czechoslovakia 1945," Military HistoryOnline.com (3 Jun 2006) <link>.

Bob Seals, "'Peace' in a Very Small Place: Dien Bien Phu 50 Years Later," Military HistoryOnline.com (17 May 2006) <link>.

Larry Parker, "The Sturminfanteriegeschutz 33B (StuIG) at Stalingrad: A Technological Approach to the Problem of Urban Warfare," MilitaryHistoryOnline.com (29 Apr 2006) <link>.

Larry Parker, "Only the Admirals were HappyAn Evaluation of the Various Factors Affecting the Critical Campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941-1943," MilitaryHistory Online.com (4 Apr 2006) <link>.

Dan Fratini, "The Battle Of Yarmuk, 636," MilitaryHistoryOnline.com (1 Apr 2006) <link>.

Jeffrey Laurenti, "Iraq: Means and Ends," MotherJones.com (20 Jun 2006) <link>.

Robert Dreyfuss," Permanent War: The Iraqi Insurgency and Us," MotherJones.com (19 Jun 2006) <link>.

Mark Sappenfield, "Line between War, Murder Tough to Draw," CS Monitor (22 Jun 2006) <link>.

Joan Bowman, "The Great War: Memory and Memorials," Ducts.org 17 (Sum 2006) <link>.

Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry, "If Necessary, Strike and Destroy: North Korea Cannot Be Allowed to Test This Missile," Washington Post (22 Jun 2006) <link>.

Richard Norton-Taylor, "General Warns of Rising Levels of Violence in Basra," The Guardian (21 Jun 2006) <link>.

Jason Motlagh, "US Opens New War Front in North Africa," Asia Times (14 Jun 2006) <link>.

Robert Higgs, "Atrocities in the 'Good War': A Tract for Today," LewRockwell.com (19 Jun 2006) <link>.

Hala Jaber, "Horror Show Reveals Iraq’s Descent," [London] Times Online (18 Jun 2006) <link>.

Neil Clark, "Things Could Get Even Worse in Iraq," The Australian (12 Jun 2006) <link>.

Nicholas von Hoffman, "Nightmare Scenario," The Nation (12 Jun 2006) <link>.

Philip Weiss, "At U.S. Naval War College, Scholar Likens Iraq to Plague," New York Observer (14 Jun 2006) <link>.

Helena Cobban, "The Incredible Shrinking U.S.," Salon.com (9 Jun 2006) <link>, also <link>.

Francis Harris, "US 'Planning to Keep 50,000 Troops in Iraq for Many Years,'" Telegraph (12 Jun 2006) <link>.

Ken Silverstein, "Creating the Inevitable: The CIA Visits Iraq in April 2002," Harper's (5 Jun 2006) <link>.

Fadel el-Badrani, "Mixed Reactions on al-Zarqawi's Death in Iraq Province," Deutsche Presse-Agentur (9 Jun 2006) <link>.

Patrick Cockburn, "Bloodbath beyond the Green Zone: The Unreported Iraq," CounterPunch (6 Jun 2006) <link>.

Scott Peterson, "Major Blow to Iraq Insurgency," CS Monitor (9 Jun 2006) <link>.

Larry Wheeler, "Sinking of the Oriskany 17-May-2006 ," Pensacola News Journal (18 May 2006) <link>.

Neil MacKay, "Haditha: the Worst US Atrocity since Vietnam … Iraqi Women and Children Massacred by American Marines. How Did It Happen?" Sunday Herald (4 Jun 2006) <link>.

Michael Moss, "Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans for Iraqi Police," NY Times (22 May 2006) <link>.

Brad Knickerbocker, "War Atrocities: Awareness Grows, Tolerance Drops," CS Monitor (2 Jun 2006) <link>.

Gregory M. Lamb, "Same War, Different Lenses," CS Monitor (2 Jun 2006) <link>.

Robert Higgs, "The President Seems out of Touch with Events on the Ground in Iraq," LewRockwell.com (31 May 2006) <link>.

Thomas X. Hammes, "Tearing Iraq Apart," NY Times (1 Jun 2006) <link>.

Tom Porteous, "Losing the Long War," TomPaine.com (30 May 2006) <link>.

Amir Taheri, "The Real Iraq," Commentary (Jun 2006) <link>.

"Seven Questions: Supporting the Veterans" [interview with Jon Stolz], Foreign Policy (24 May 2006) <link>.

Michael Massing, "The Storm over the Israel Lobby," NYRB 53.10 (8 Jun 2006) <link>.

Fred Kaplan, "The China Syndrome: Why the Pentagon Keeps Overestimating Beijing's Military Strength," Slate (26 May 2006) <link>.

Michael Gordon, "Pentagon Seeks Nonnuclear Tip for Sub Missiles," NY Times (29 May 2006) <link>.

Paul Starobin, "Of Mullahs and MADness," National Journal (19 May 2006) <link>.

Douglass K. Daniel, "Murtha: New Scandal Worse Than Abu Ghraib," Yahoo! News (28 May 2006) <link>.

Joshua Holland, "Iraq's My Lai," AlterNet (27 May 2006) <link>.

Martin Sieff, "Ballistic Missile Defense: The New Cold War," World Peace Herald (26 May 2006) <link>.

Sidney Blumenthal, "'Victory'? Forget It," Salon.com (25 May 2006) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Top Marine Visits Iraq as Probe of Deaths Widens," Washington Post (26 May 2006) <link>.

H.D.S. Greenway, "It's Not the First War under False Pretenses," Boston Globe (23 May 2006) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "Bacevich on the Limits of Imperial Power" [interview], TomDispatch, Part 1 (23 May 2006) <link>, Part 2 (25 May 2006) <link>, also Antiwar.com (24 May 2006) <link> / (26 May 2006) <link>.

Josef Joffe, "'Imperium without a Timetable," trans. Bob Skinner, Die Zeit (11 May 2006) <link>.

Dexter Filkins, "Armed Groups Propel Iraq toward Chaos," NY Times (24 May 2006) <link>.

Lakshmi Chaudhry, "Charting a Sane Course in the Middle East," In These Times (22 May 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Critique of US Policy in Iraq," Informed Comment (23 May 2006) <link>.

James M. Haley, "1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts," Vietnam (Jun 2006) <link>.

Williamson Murray, "Field Marshall Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox's Defense of Normandy," World War II (Jun 2006) <link>.

Joshua Holland, "The Great Iraq Oil Grab," AlterNet (22 May 2006) <link>.

Gareth Stanfield, "Divide and Heal," Prospect 122 (May 2006) <link>.

Katrina vanden Heuvel, "Iraq Uncensored," The Nation (20 May 2006) <link>.

Daniel Smith, "Bombs Away! or Bomb Anyway," Foreign Policy in Focus (16 May 2006) <link>, also Antiwar.com (19 May 2006) <link>.

Stephen Zunes, "The United States, Israel, and the Possible Attack on Iran," Foreign Policy in Focus (28 Apr 2006) <link>.

"Seven Questions: Fixing U.S. Intelligence" [interview with Michael Scheuer], Foreign Policy 85.3 (May/Jun 2006) <link>.

Jim Mannion, "US Forces Cannot Withdraw Yet from Any Iraqi Province: General," Yahoo! News (17 May 2006) <link>.

Bronwen Maddox, "Is US Using Enemy to Fight a Proxy War?" Times Online (19 May 2006) <link>.

Tom Hayden, "Hawks for Withdrawal," The Nation (17 May 2006) <link>.

Mathieu Guidère & Peter Harling, "Iraq's Resistance Evolves," Le Monde diplomatique (May 2006) <link>.

Jephraim P. Gundzik, "Iraq's Impending Fracture to Produce Political Earthquake in Turkey," PINR (17 May 2006) <link>.

Bibhu Prasad Routray, ''Militancy in India's Northeast," PINR (16 May 2006) <link>.

Barbara Starr, "Army: HBO Documentary Could Trigger Stress Disorder," CNN.com (15 May 2006) <link>.

Joshua Holland, "Groundhog Day in Iraq," AlterNet (15 May 2006) <link>.

Peter Baker, "Bush Set To Send Guard to Border," Washington Post (15 May 2006) <link>.

Drake Bennett, "Soldier, Spy," Boston Globe (14 May 2006) <link>.

Nick Meo, "'They Cut Off His Hands and Feet and He Bled to Death,'" [London] Times Online (15 May 2006) <link>.

Solomon Moore & Peter Spiegel, "U.S. Military Is Split on Insurgency Strategy," LA Times (13 May 2006) <link>.

William M. Arkin, "Rumsfeld Didn't Lie, But He Should Still Go," Washington Post (5 May 2006) <link>.

William M. Arkin, "No Smoking Gun on Rumsfeld," Washington Post (27 Apr 2006) <link>.

Thomas Wagner, "Nearly 1,100 Were Slain in Baghdad in April," Seattle Times (10 May 2006) <link>.

Shankar Vedantam, "GAO: Few Troops Are Treated for Disorder: Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Gauged," Washington Post (11 May 2006) <link>.

Scott Peterson, "US, Iran Standoff Grows Tenser," CS Monitor (10 May 2006) <link>.

James Kitfield, "The Generals' Case," National Journal (5 May 2006) <link>.

Eugene Richards, "War Is Personal: Carlos Arredondo/Age 45/Roslindale, Massachusetts," The Nation (8 May 2006) <link>.

Lawrence Henry, "Rumsfeld and the Generals," American Spectator (5 May 2006) <link>.

Fouad Ajami, "A Sage in Christendom: A Personal Tribute to Bernard Lewis," Opinion Journal [WSJ] (1 May 2006) <link>.

Dan Murphy, "Death Squads Deepen Division in Baghdad," CS Monitor (8 May 2006) <link>.

William E. Odom, "Cut and Run? You Bet," Foreign Policy (May/Jun 2006) <link>.

Louise Roug, "Targeted Killings Surge in Baghdad," LA Times (7 May 2006) <link>.

Davide Berretta & Andrew Kamons, "The List: Sizing Up Iran’s Military," Foreign Policy (1 May 2006) <link>.

David Isenberg, "Military Muscles Bulging in SE Asia," Asia Times Online (3 May 2006) <link>.

Robert Parry, "Iran Intelligence War,' TomPaine.com (1 May 2006) <link> & AlterNet (4 May 2006) <link>.

Elizabeth Spiro Clark, "Slouching toward Teheran," Uncommon Sense (4 May 2006) <link>.

Ethan Heitner, "You Don't Go To War With Iran With The Army You Want...," Uncommon Sense (3 May 2006) <link>.

Stephen Glain, "China's Internal Crisis," The Nation (1 May 2006) <link>.

Daniel Schulman, "Mind Games," Columbia Journalism Review (May/Jun 2006) <link>.

Edward Luttwak, "Three Reasons Not to Bomb Iran—Yet," Commentary (May 2006) <link>.

Matthew Rothschild, "Putting a Smiley Face on Disaster," The Progressive (28 Apr 2006) <link>.

David A. Johnson, "Battle of Lewes: Revolt of the Barons," Military History (May 2006) <link>.

Maurice D'Aoust, "Hoodwinked During the Civl War: Union Military Deception," Civil War Times (May 2006) <link>.

Gregory G. Bolich, "Terrorism in the Ancient Roman World," MHQ (Spr 2006) <link>.

Stuart W. Sanders, "Robert Charles Tyler: Last Civil War Confederate General Slain in Combat," MHQ (Spr 2006) <link>.

Jeremy Scahill, "Blood Is Thicker Than Blackwater," The Nation (8 May 2006) <link>, also AlterNet (1 May 2006) <link>.

Joseph J. Collins, "Planning Lessons from Afghanistant and Iraq," Joint Force Quarterly 41.2 (2006) 10-14 <link>.

Milan N. Vego, "Effects-Based Operations: A Critique," Joint Force Quarterly 41.2 (2006) 51-57 <link>.

David C. Gompert & Richard L. Kugler, "Custer and Cognition," Joint Force Quarterly 41.2 (2006) 87-93 <link>.

Juan Cole, "Settling Iraq before It Blows Up," Informed Comment (1 May 2006) <link>.

Libby Quaid [AP], "Powell Forces Rice to Defend Iraq Planning," Yahoo! News (30 Apr 2006) <link>.

Donna St. George, "GAO Says Government Pesters Wounded Soldiers Over Debts," Washington Post (27 Apr 2006) <link>.

Tom Baldwin, "US Admits Iraq Is Terror 'Cause,'" Times Online (29 Apr 2006) <link>.

Ian Williams, "Still No Mission Accomplished," AlterNet (27 Apr 2006) <link>.

Hendrik Hertzberg, "Rummyache," New Yorker (1 May 2006) <link>.

Chris Floyd, "Time's Arrow: The Coming Nuclear Epiphany in Persia," LewRockwell.com (24 Apr 2006) <link>.

Rebecca Ulam Weiner, "Peace Corp.," Boston Globe (23 Apr 2006) <link>.

Howard Zinn, "America's Blinders," The Progressive (Apr 2006) <link>, also in AlterNet (24 Apr 2006) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson, "New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones: Pentagon to Rely on Special Operations," Washington Post (23 Apr 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "All Right, Not All Right," Informed Comment (23 Apr 2006) <link>.

Anthony H. Cordesman, "American Strategic, Tactical, and Other Mistakes in Iraq: A Litany of Errors," Center for Strategic and International Studies (19 Apr 2006) <link>.

Matthew Yglesias, "Don't Do It: The Case against War with Iran," American Prospect (19 Apr 2006) <link>.

Dahr Jamail, "Baghdad Slipping Into Civil War," Antiwar.com (20 Apr 2006) <link>.

Richard Kohn, "The Generals Who Said Too Much," Time (19 Apr 2006) <link>.

Sidney D. Drell, "The Shadow of the Bomb, 2006," Policy Review 136 (Apr/May 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Breaking the Silence," Salon (18 Apr 2006) <link>.

Sarah Baxter, "US Plots ‘New Liberation of Baghdad’," Sunday Times (16 Apr 2006) <link>.

Scott Shane, "Generals Break with Tradition over Rumsfeld," NY Times (16 Apr 2006) <link>.

Matthew Rothschild, "Beware the Bombing of Iran," The Progressive (May 2006) <link>.

Antonio Castaneda, "Commanders Critical of Iraqi Army Desertion Policy," Army Times (13 Apr 2006) <link>.

Reuel Marc Gerecht, "To Bomb, or Not to Bomb, That Is the Iran Question," Weekly Standard 11.30 (24 Apr 2006) <link>.

David S. Cloud & Eric Schmitt, "More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation," NY Times (13 Apr 2006) <link>.

Cal Perry, "Baghdad: Where No One Is Safe," CNN (12 Apr 2006) <link>.

Kris Axtman, "Guard Recruiters Try Realism and Succeed," CS Monitor (12 Apr 2006) <link>.

Patrick Cockburn, "Situation in Iraq Could Not Be Worse," Seattle Post-Intelligencer (11 Apr 2006) <link>.

George Packer, "The Lesson of Tel Afar," New Yorker (10 Apr 2006) <link>.

Rosa Brooks, "Those Ungrateful Iraqis!" LA Times (7 Apr 2006) <link>.

Seymour Hersh, "The Iran Plans," New Yorker (17 Apr 2006) <link>.

Nir Rosen, "On the Ground in Iraq: The Roots of Sectarian Violence," Boston Review (Mar/Apr 2006) <link>.

Howard Zinn, "America's Blinders," The Progressive (Apr 2006) <link>.

David Zucchino, "New Battle on the Home Front," LA Times (4 Apr 2006) <link>.

Martin Sieff, "The Many Faces of Iraq's War," World Peace Herald (7 Apr 2006) <link>.

Matt Hann, "Filming the Iraq Insurgency," BBC News (1 Apr 2006) <link>.

Kevin Woods, James Lacey, & Williamson Murray, "Saddam's Delusions: The View from the Inside," Foreign Affairs (May/Jun 2006) <link>.

Jack Fairweather, "Heroes in Error," Mother Jones (Mar/Apr 2006) <link>.

Michael Slenske, "Theater of War" [interview with Sean Huze], Mother Jones (Mar/Apr 2006) <link>.

Stephen Biddle, "Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon," Foreign Affairs (Mar/Apr 2006) <link>.


Reviews

Norman Polmar, The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, 18th ed. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst Pr, 2005), review by Andrew Lambert, Internat'l Journal  of Naval History 5.1 (Apr 2006) <link>.

Vincent P. O’Hara, The German Fleet at War: 1939-1945 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst Pr, 2004), review by Gregory V. Contaoi, Internat'l Journal  of Naval History 5.1 (Apr 2006) <link>.

Peter Goodwin, The Ships of Trafalgar: The British, French and Spanish Fleets, October 1805 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst Pr, 2005), review by Edward M. Furgol, Internat'l Journal  of Naval History 5.1 (Apr 2006) <link>.

Rory Stewart, Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing Iraq (London: Picador, 2006), review by Simon Jenkins, [London] Times Online (18 Jun 2006) <link>.

Charles Fenn, At the Dragon's Gate: With the OSS in the Far East (Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst Pr, 2004), review by Troy Sacquety, Studies in Intelligence 50.2 (2006) <link>.

Jon Lee Anderson, The Fall of Baghdad (NY: Penguin, 2004), review by William  Shane Story, H-Net Reviews (May 2006) <link>.

Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (Cambridge: Harvard U Pr, 2005), review by Chandar S. Sundaram, H-Net Reviews (May 2006) <link>.

Mark Stoyle, Soldiers and Strangers: An Ethnic History of the English Civil War (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2005), review by Jasmin L. Johnson, H-Net Reviews (Apr 2006) <link>.

Antonio Santosuosso, Barbarians, Marauders and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare (Cambridge: Westview, 2004), review by Brian G. H. Ditcham, H-Net Reviews (Apr 2006) <link>.

Peter Davies, Dangerous Liaisons: Collaboration and World War Two (Harlow, UK: Pearson, 2004), review by Kelly McFall, H-Net Reviews (Apr 2006) <link>.

Norman Davies, Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (London: Penguin, 2003), review by Anna M. Wittmann, H-Net Reviews (Apr 2006) <link>.

Alistair Cooke, The American Home Front, 1841-1942 (NY: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2006), review by Charles Taylor, Newsday (18 Jun 2006) <link>.

Paul Wilmshurst, dir., Hiroshima (BBC/Warner, 2005), review by Jerry D. Morelock, Armchair General (15 Jun 2006) <link>.

Melvin Claxton & Mark Puls, Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism, and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006), review by David Beard, Boston Globe (29 Jun 2006) <link>.

Martin Gilbert, The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War (NY: Henry Holt, 2006), review by John P. Rossi, Phila Inquirer (29 Jun 2006) <link>.

Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (NY: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2006), review by Michael B. Farrell, CS Monitor (27 Jun 2006) <link>.

Tom Chaffin, Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah (NY: Hill & Wang, 2006), review by Edward Sheehy, Phila Inquirer (22 Jun 2006) <link>.

Adrian Murdoch, Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest (Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2006), review by Jona Lendering, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.06.30 <link>.

Thomas X. Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century (Osceola, WI: Zenith Pr, 2004), review by Bruce L. Brager, MilitaryHistoryOnline.com (8 Jun 2006) <link>.

Stormregion, dev., Rush for Berlin [wargame], review by John Barratt, MilitaryHistoryOnline.com (14 May 2006) <link>.

David Rieff, At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006), review by Doug Bandow, Antiwar.com (23 Jun 2006) <link>.

David J. Danelo, Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2006), review by William S. Lind, Antiwar.com (14 Jun 2006) <link>.

Michael R. Gordon & Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (NY: Pantheon, 2006), reviews by Sean Naylor, NY Times (28 Mar 2006) <link>, Steve Coll, New Yorker (3 Apr 2006) <link>, David Rieff, New Republic (17 Apr 2006) <link>, Jacob Heilbrunn, NY Times (30 Apr 2006) <link>, Andrew Bacevich, London Review of Books 28.11 (8 Jun 2006) <link>, & Victor Hanson, Commentary (Jun 2006) <link>.

Deborah Scranton, dir., The War Tapes (SenArt Films 2006), reviews by Sudhir Muralidhar, American Prospect (9 Jun 2006) <link> & Kevin McCarthy, The Nation (14 Jun 2006) <link>.

John M. Kistler, War Elephants (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005), review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (10 Jun 2006) <link>.

Niall Ferguson, The War of the World : Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (NY: Penguin, 2006), review by Allan Mallinson, Times Online (27 May 2006) <link>.

Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006), review by Allan Massie, Literary Review (Jun 2006) <link>.

Jay Stout, Hammer from Above: Marine Air Combat over Iraq (NY: Presidio, 2005), review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (1 Jun 2006) <link>.

Neil Hanson, Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War (NY: Knopf, 2006), review by William Grimes, NY Times (31 May 2006) <link>.

Steven H. Newton, Hitler's Commander: Field Marshal Walther ModelHitler's Favorite General (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2005), review by John M. & Priscilla S. Taylor, Washington Times (28 May 2006) <link>.

Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (NY: Penguin, 2006), review by Allan Mallinson, [London] Times Online (27 May 2006) <link>.

Norbert Geske, Nikias und das Volk von Athen im Archidamischen Krieg (Stuttgart:  F. Steiner, 2005), review by Edith Foster, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.05.32 <link>.

Norman Cantor, Alexander (NY: Harper-Collins, 2005), review by George Stow, Phila. Inquirer (25 May 2006) <link>.

Richard L. DiNardo, Germany and the Axis Powers (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2005), review by A. A. Nofi, Strategy Page (21 May 2006) <link>.

Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of Americas First Central Intelligence Agency (Guilford, CT: Lyons Pr, 2005), review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (20 May 2006) <link>.

James Carroll, House of War (Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 2006), reviews by Seth Stern, CS Monitor (16 May 2006) <link> & William Grimes, NY Times (7 Jun 2006) <link>.

Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss, Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War (NY: Little, Brown, 2006), review by Edward Nawotka, SF Chronicle (14 May 2006) <link>.

Saul David, Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire (NY: Viking, 2006), review by Neil Hanson, Times Online (14 May 2006) <link>.

A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan (NY: Walker & Co, 2006), reviews by Carlin Romano, Phila Inquirer (14 May 2006) <link>, Ernest W. Lefever, Washington Times (30 Apr 2006) <link>, & Frederic Smoler, American Heritage (6 Apr 2006) <link>.

Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq (NY: Times Books, 2006), review by Eric Arnesen, Chicago Tribune (14 May 2006) <link>.

Julia E. Sweig, Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century (NY: PublicAffairs, 2006), & Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes, How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (NY: Henry Holt, 2006), reviews by Robert Wright, NY Times (14 May 2006) <link>.

Tom Clancy, Tony Zinni, & Tom Koltz, Battle Ready (NY: Berkely, 2005), review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (11 May 2006) <link>.

Jeffrey T. Richelson, Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea (NY: Norton, 2006), review by Jeremy Bernstein, NYRB 53.9 (25 May 2006) <link>.

John Hamamura, Color of the Sea (NY: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 2006), review by Summer Block, SF Chronicle (7 May 2006) <link>.

John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (NY: Penguin, 2005), review by Paul Johnson, American Spectator (Apr 2006) <link>.

Gavan Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese: Pows of World War II in the Pacific (NY: Morrow, 1994), review by Christopher Silvester, Telegraph (30 Apr 2006) <link>.

Magdalene Stoevesandt, FeindeGegnerOpfer: Zur Darstellung der Troianer in den Kampfszenen der Ilias (Basel: Schwabe, 2005), review by M.M. Willcock, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.05.03 <link>.

Kristin Henderson, While They're at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), review by Tony Perry, LA Times (24 Apr 2006) <link>.

Bernard Porter, Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2006), review by Paul Kennedy, Sunday Times (30 Apr 2006) <link>.

Carol Reardon, Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972 (Lawrence: U Kansas Pr, 2004), review by Spencer C. Tucker, Vietnam (Apr 2006) <link>.

Janis Karpinsky, One Woman’s Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story (NY: Miramax, 2006), review by Michael Durand, Armchair General (1 May 2006) <link>.

Caroline Paul, East Wind, Rain: A Novel (NY: Morrow, 2006), review by Linda Burnett, SF Chronicle (23 Apr 2006) <link>.

Christopher L.H. Barnes, Images and Insults: Ancient Historiography and the Outbreak of the Tarentine War (Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 2005), review by Michael P. Fronda, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.04.37 <link>.

Harry S. Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation : A Moral History of the Civil War (NY: Viking, 2006), reviews by Adam Kirsch, NY Sun (18 Jan 2006) <link>, Ross Douthat, Policy Review 135 (Feb/Mar 2006) <link>, & Edward J. Blum, Books & Culture (Mar/Apr 2006) <link>.

Helen Nicholson, Knight Templar, 1120-1312 (NY: Osprey, 2003), review by Paul Crawford, De Re Militari (Apr 2006) <link>.

Derek Leebaert, To Dare and To Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, From Achilles to Al Qaeda (NY: Little, Brown, 2006), review by Rick Baillergeon, Armchair General (21 Apr 2006) <link>.

Gary C. Schroen, First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan (NY: Presidio, 2005), review by Bruce Berkowitz, Policy Review 136 (Apr/May 2006) <link>.

Carolyn Dewald, Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study (Berkeley:  U California Pr, 2005), review by Tim Rood, Bryn Mawr Classical Studies 2006.04.25 <link>.

John Yoo, The Powers of War and Peace:
The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11
(Chicago: U Chicago Pr, 2006), reviews by Andrew C. McCarthy, Commentary (Mar 2006) <link> & Eugene Kontorovich, Policy Review 136 (Apr/May 2006) <link>.

Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 (NY: Metropolitan Books, 2006), review by William Grimes, NY Times (15 Feb 2006) <link> & Joseph C. Goulden, Washington Times (9 April 2006) <link>.

Richard F. Miller, A Carrier At War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005), review by Paul Davis, Philadelphia Enquirer (13 Apr 2006) <link>.

Irène Néemirovsky, Suite Française (NY: Knopf, 2006), reviews by Paul Gray, NY Times (9 Apr 2006) <link>, Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune (9 Apr 2006) <link>, Claire Messud, BookForum (Apr/May 2006) <link>, & Yvonne Zipp, CS Monitor (25 Apr 2006) <link>.

Jonathan B. Tucker, War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al Qaeda (NY: Pantheon, 2006), review by Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly (Spr 2006) <link>.

Andrew Ayton & Philip Preston, The Battle of Crécy, 1346 (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2005), review by Sergio Mantovani, De Re Miltari (Apr 2006) <link>.

Gordon Corrigan, Blood, Sweat, and Arrogance, and the Myth of Churchill's War (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006), review by Andrew Roberts, TLS (9 Apr 2006) <link>.