Articles

Scott Peterson, Dan Murphy, & Jill Carroll, "What to Read on Iraq," CS Monitor (27 Jun 2007) <link>.

John W. Dean, "The Misunderestimated Mr. Cheney," FindLaw (29 Jun 2007) <link>.

Julian Barnes, "Iraq Strategy Geared to U.S. Pullout," LA Times (28 Jun 2007) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Bush Turns Iraq into Israel/Palestine; Gaffe Endangers US Troops," Informed Comment (29 Jun 2007) <link>.

Doug Bandow, "Presidential Hawks, Left and Right," Antiwar.com (29 Jun 2007) <link>.

James Kitfield, "The Thin Iraqi Line," Nat'l Journal (8 Jun 2007) <link>.

Alexandria Poolos, "War's Reverberations, at Home and on Stage," American Prospect (29 Jun 2007) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "The Numbers Surge in Iraq," TomDispatch (27 Jun 2007) <link>, also Antiwar.com (28 Jun 2007) <link>.

Scott Horton, "The Cheney Shogunate," Harper's (25 Jun 2007) <link>.

Penny Coleman, "Reflections of a Vietnam War Widow: It Doesn't End When They Come Home," AlterNet (25 Jun 2007) <link>.

Ken Miller, "Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar," The Nation (12 Jun 2007) <link>.

Adam Elkus, "The End of Supreme Command," Foreign Policy in Focus (22 Jun 2007) <link>, &  Antiwar.com (23 Jun 2007) <link>.

Chris Hedges, "A Culture of Atrocity," Truthdig (18 Jun 2007) <link> & AlterNet (19 Jun 2007) <link>.

Michael S. Rozeff, "Why We Are Still in Iraq," LewRockwell.com (21 Jun 2007) <link>.

Martin Sieff, "Eye on Iraq: Why the Surge Failed," UPI (20 Jun 2007) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "Joint Failure," Boston Globe (17 Jun 2007) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "More Troops, More Troubles," LA Times (18 Jun 2007) <link>.

Steve Fainaru, "Iraq Contractors Face Growing Parallel War," Washington Post (16 Jun 2007) <link>.

Seymour M. Hersh, "The General’s Report," New Yorker (25 Jun 2007) <link>.

Owen West & Bing West, "The Laptop Is Mightier Than the Sword," NY Times (15 Jun 2007) <link>.

Gordon Prather, "After the Retaliation," Antiwar.com (16 Jun 2007) <link>.

Ezra Klein, "Let's Get Serious: What Do Liberal Hawks Actually Want to Do Regarding Iran?" American Prospect (14 Jun 2007) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "On the Escalator to War with Iran," Antiwar.com (15 Jun 2007) <link>.

Leonard Doyle, "Failure to Halt Iraqi Violence Revealed by Pentagon Report ," The Independent (15 Jun 2007) <link>.

Robert Service, "Party Politics," New Statesman (7 Jun 2007) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "Bushed Army: Our Forces Strain under a Surge of New Missions," American Conservative (4 Jun 2007) <link>.

Joshua Holland & Raed Jarrar, "Imperial Scribes: Bush Says We’ll Be in Iraq for 50 Years, but Reporters Don't Bother to Ask Iraqis to Comment," AlterNet (8 Jun 2007) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson & John Ward Anderson, "Attacks on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grow in Lethality, Complexity," Washington Post (3 Jun 2007) <link>.

Günter Grass, "How I Spent the War," tr. M.H. Heim, New Yorker (4 Jun 2007) <link>.

Bing West & Owen West, "The Adviser Model," Slate (23 May 2007) <link>.

Gordon Lubold, "Why So Few Bomb-Safe US Military Trucks in Iraq?" CS Monitor (31 May 2007) <link>.

Alison Bowen, "Long Tours Extend Heartaches for Military Moms," Women's eNews (27 May 2007) <link>, & AlterNet (30 May 2007) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "Does 'The Decider' Decide on War?" Antiwar.com (30 May 2007) <link>.

Rich Lowry, "A Vanquishing: It Is a Mistake to Think That War History Is Unimportant," Nat'l Review Online (25 May 2007) <link>.

Andrew Bacevich, "I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty," Washington Post (27 May 2007) <link>.

Hugh Fitzgerald, "Paul Wolfowitz: After Such Ignorance, What Forgiveness?" New English Review (May 2007) <link>.

Jeff Emanuel, "The Lost Heroes of the War on Terror," American Spectator (25 May 2007) <link>.

Robert J. Bunker & John P. Sullivan, "Iraq & the Americas: 3 Gen Gangs Lessons and Prospects, Small Wars Journal 8 (May 2007) <link>.

Dalia Sussman, "Poll Shows View of Iraq War Is Most Negative Since Start," NY Times (25 May 2007) <link>, with commentary by Juan Cole, Informed Comment (26 May 2007) <link>.

John Laurence, "Rules of Engagement: A Year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq," Columbia Journalism Review (May/Jun 2007) <link>.

Wendy Smith, "War Weary," American Scholar (Spr 2007) <link>.

Stewart Nusbaumer, "Beyond Baghdad: The Surge Isn’t Ending the Insurgency but Dispersing It," American Conservative (21 May 2007) <link>.

Winslow Wheeler, "One-Third of Troops in Iraq Support Torture, Majority Condone Mistreating Innocent Civilians," AlterNet (24 May 2007) <link>.

Doug Bandow, "War without Consequence? Absurd." L. von Mises Inst. (22 May 2007) <link>.

Norman Podhoretz, "The Case for Bombing Iran," Commentary (Jun 2007) <link>.

Sarah Chayes, "Days of Lies and Roses: Selling Out Afghanistan," Boston Review (Mar/Apr 2007) <link>.

Linda Robinson, "The Back-Street Front Lines," U.S. News (20 May 2007) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "But Who Was Right—Rudy or Ron?" Antiwar.com (18 May 2007) <link>.

Rory Stewart, "Iraq: The Question," NY Review of Books 54.9 (31 May 2007) <link>

Lonny L. Grout, "Austerlitz: Napoleon Makes His Own Luck," MilitaryHistoryOnline (22 Apr 2007) <link>.

Robert C. Daniels, "The Muslim Horde's Easy Invasion of Iberia," MilitaryHistoryOnline (14 Apr 2007) <link>.

James Glanz, "Iraq Attacks Stayed Steady Despite Troop Increase, Data Show," NY Times (16 May 2007) <link>.

Edward Luttwak, "The Middle of Nowhere," Prospect Magazine 134 (May 2007) <link>.

Robert H. Reid & Anne Flaherty, "Insurgents 'Learning How to Defeat' Strykers," Seattle Times (14 May 2007) <link>.

Taylor Owen & Ben Kiernan, "Bombs over Cambodia: New Light on US Air War," Japan Focus (12 May 2007) <link>.

Borzou Daragahi, "Iraq War Spreads to Hollywood," LA Times (13 May 2007) <link>.

Nir Rosen, "The Flight from Iraq," NY Times (13 May 2007) <link>.

Jeffrey Goldberg, "Woodward vs. Tenet: The New Intelligence War," New Yorker (21 May 2007) <link>.

William Dalrymple, "Delhi, 1857: A Bloody Warning to Today's Imperial Occupiers," The Guardian (10 May 2007) <link>.

Chris Floyd, "Progress Report: Redefining Forward Motion in Iraq," LewRockwell (10 May 2007) <link>.

Stewart Nusbaumer, "Street without Joy: Will Bush’s Surge Secure Baghdad’s Bloodiest Block?" American Conservative (7 May 2007) <link>.

Patrick Cockburn, "How the Surge is Failing," CounterPunch (4 May 2007) <link>, also AlterNet (5 May 2007) <link>.

Daniel Johnson, "Contra Iran," New Criterion 25 (May 2007) 10 <link>.

Daniel Schorr, "Fabricating Inspiration in a Time of War," CS Monitor (4 May 2007) <link>.

Al Pessin, "US General [Rick Lynch] Predicts More Casualties As Iraq Surge Continues," Voice of America (4 May 2007) <link>.

Alexander Tabarrok, "The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Privateers," Independent Review 11.4 (Spr 2007) <link>.

Hope Yen, "Deployments Risk Troops' Mental Health," The Guardian (4 May 2007) <link>.

Cory Schake, "Dealing with a Nuclear Iran," Policy Review (Apr/May 2007) <link>.

Michael C. Desch, "Bush and the Generals," Foreign Affairs (May/Jun 2007) <link>.

Bruce Riedel, "Al Qaeda Strikes Back," Foreign Affairs (May/Jun 2007) <link>.

Parry, "Dying for W," ConsortiumNews.com (25 Apr 2007) <link>.

William F. Buckley Jr., "The Waning of the GOP," Nat'l Review (28 Apr 2007) <link>.

Juan Cole, "George Tenet on the Staircase with the Neocons," Salon (30 Apr 2007) <link>.

Naomi Wolf, "Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps," The Guardian (24 Apr 2007) <link>, & AlterNet (28 Apr 2007) <link>.

Richard Wolffe & Holly Bailey, "Doubts about Doomsday," Newsweek (25 Apr 2007) <link>.

Christopher Hitchens, "Jefferson versus the Muslim Pirates," City Journal (Spr 2007) <link>.

Paul Yingling, "A Failure in Generalship," Armed Forces Journal (May 2007) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Army Officer Accuses Generals of 'Intellectual and Moral Failures,'" Washington Post (27 Apr 2007) <link>.

Chris Floyd, "The Lies of the Times: NYT Pushes Bush Line on Somalia," LewRockwell.com (26 Apr 2007) <link>.

Sam Dagher, "Baghdad Security Plan Puts US Forces, Civilians Perilously Close," CS Monitor (24 Apr 2007) <link>.

Phillip Carter, "Plan FUBAR: Time for Plan G in Iraq?" Slate (18 Apr 2007) <link>.

Elizabeth Drew, "The War in Washington," NY Review of Books (10 May 2007) <link>.

Paul Kennedy, "The Rise and Fall of Navies," Int'l Herald Tribune (5 Apr 2007) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson, "Top U.S. Officers See Mixed Results from Iraq 'Surge,'" Washington Post (22 Apr 2007) <link>.

Elizabeth Spiro Clark, "War Plan B and Situation B," TomPaine.com (19 Apr 2007) <link>.

Arthur Bright, "Baghdad's Sunni/Shiite Security Wall," CS Monitor (20 Apr 2007) <link>.

Hugh Fitzgerald, "Never Have So Few Done So Much Damage to So Many," New English Review (Apr 2007) <link>.

David Margolick, "The Night of the Generals," Vanity Fair (Apr 2007) <link>.

Shashank Bengali, "U.S. Troop Deaths Climbing in Iraq," McClatchy Newspapers (16 Apr 2007) <link>.

Robert C. Daniels, "The Muslim Horde's Easy Invasion of Iberia," MilitaryHistoryOnline (14 Apr 2007) <link>.

Pepe Escobar, "Night Bus from Baghdad," Asia Times (13 Apr 2007) <link>.

Sheldon Richman, "Preventing Opposition to War," Future of Freedom Foundation (13 Apr 2007) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "Six Crises in Search of an Author," TomDispatch (9 Apr 2007) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "Downsizing: What the 'Surge' Really Means," Commonweal 134.7 (6 Apr 2007) <link>.

Scott Horton, "The Guns of April," No Comment [Harper's] (1 Apr 2007) <link>.

Andrew Bacevich, "'Your Iraq Plan?' Is a Pointless Question," LA Times (9 Apr 2007) <link>.

Paul von Zielbauer, "U.S. Army Prosecutions of Desertion Rise Sharply," Int'l Herald Tribune (8 Apr 2007) <link>.

Juan Cole, "How to Get Out of Iraq," The Nation (23 Apr 2007) <link>.

Mark Thompson, "America's Broken-Down Army," Time (5 Apr 2007) <link>.

Tom Hayden, "Stop the Dirty War," Common Dreams (4 Apr 2007) <link>.

Arthur Herman, "How to Win in Iraq—and How to Lose," Commentary (Apr 2007) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Iran's New Hostage Crisis," Salon.com (3 Apr 2007) <link>.

Greg Mitchell, "Haunting Image of War: A Dead Woman's Dentures in the Dirt," Editor & Publisher (1 Apr 2007) <link>.

Jon Meacham, "The War in the Words of the Dead," Newsweek (2 Apr 2007) <link>.

Salam Faraj, "Iraq Toll Up 15 Percent Despite Crackdown," Yahoo! News (1 Apr 2007) <link>.

John Kiszely, "Learning about Counterinsurgency," Military Review (Mar/Apr 2007) 5-11 <link>.

Reviews

Frederick Taylor, The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (NY: HarperCollins, 2007), review by Neal Ascherson, London Review 29.12 (21 Jun 2007) <link>.

Tom Segev, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East, tr. Jessica Cohen (NY: Holt, 2007), review by Charles Matthews, SF Chronicle (17 Jun 2007) <link>.

Antony Kamm, ed., Julius Caesar: A Life (London:  Routledge, 2006), review by Robin Seager, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.27 <link>.  

John F. Drinkwater, The Alamanni and Rome 213-496: Caracalla to Clovis (Oxford:  Oxford U Pr, 2007), review by Hendrik Dey, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.24 <link>.  

Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy (NY: Scribner, 2007), review by Martin Sieff, Center for Defense Information (7 May 2007) <link>.

Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (NY: Crown, 2006), review by Peter J. Woolley, Common Review 5.4 (Spr 2007) 46-48 <link>.

John France, ed., Medieval Warfare, 1000-1300 (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006), review by Donald J. Kagay, De Re Militari (Jun 2007) <link>.

Geoffrey Hindley, Saladin: Hero of Islam (1976; rpt. S. Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword, 2007), review by Lee P. Ruddin, De Re Militari (Jun 2007) <link>.

Robert Hoyland & Brian Gilmore, Medieval Islamic Swords and Swordmaking: Kindi's Treatise "On Swords and Their Kinds" (Oakville, CT: D. Brown Book Co., 2006), review by Muhammed Hassanali, De Re Militari (Jun 2007) <link>.

Tim Willocks, The Religion (NY: FS&G, 2007), review by N.D. Wilson, Books & Culture (May/Jun 2007) <link>.

Zillah Eisenstein, Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy (London: Zed Books, 2007), review by Purnima Mankekar, Ms. (Spr 2007), rpt. Powells.com (27 May 2007) <link>.

Mark Frost, The Second Objective (NY: Hyperion, 2007), review by Scott Timberg, LA Times (22 May 2007) <link>.

Steven Pressfield, The Afghan Campaign (NY: Doubleday, 2006), review by Ronald Cluett, Claremont Review 7.2 (Spr 2007) <link>.

Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation (NY: Knopf, 2006), review by Patrick J. Garrity, Claremont Review 7.2 (Spr 2007) <link>.

G. Davies, Roman Siege Works (Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2006), review by Duncan B. Campbell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.05.32 <link>.

Ahmed S. Hashim, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Pr, 2006), review by John A. Nagl, H-Net Reviews (Apr 2007) <link>.

Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (NY: Oxford U Pr, 2006), review by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, Phila Inquirer (6 May 2006) <link>.

Amy Dockser Marcus, Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (NY: Viking, 2007), review by Austin Considine, SF Chronicle (6 May 2007) <link>.

U. Fantasia, Tucidide: La guerra del Peloponneso, Libro II (Pisa:  Edizioni ETS, 2003), review by Nino Luraghi, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.05.13 <link>.

George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (NY: HarperCollins, 2007), reviews by Michiko Kakutani, NY Times (28 Apr 2007) <link>, Christopher Hitchens, Slate (30 Apr 2007) <link>, & Bob Woodward, Washington Post (6 May 2007) <link>.

Stephen Bach, Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl (NY: Knopf, 2007), review by Carole Angier, Literary Review (May 2007) <link>.

Christopher Tyerman, God's War: A New History of the Crusades (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Pr, 2006), review by Victor D. Hanson, Claremont Review 7.2 (Spr 2007) <link>.

Emmanuèle Caire & Sylvie Pittia, Guerre et diplomatie romaines (IVe - IIIe siècles): Pour un réexamen des sources (Aix-en-Provence: U de Provence, 2006), review by Filippo Canali De Rossi, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.05.04 <link>.

Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (New Haven, CT: Yale U Pr, 2007), review by Fouad Ajami, New Republic Online (26 Apr 2007) <link>.

John Lukacs, George Kennan: A Study of Character (New Haven, CT: Yale U Pr, 2007), review by James Traub,  NY Times (29 Apr 2007) <link>.

Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (NY: Knopf, 2007), review by Chuck Leddy, Phila Inquirer (15 Apr 2007) <link>.

Adam Zamoyski, Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (NY: HarperCollins, 2007), review by Christopher Clark, Literary Review (Apr 2007) <link>.

John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire (London: Allen Lane, 2007), review by John Gray, Literary Review (Apr 2007) <link>.

Ann Hagedorn, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2007), review by Doug Bandow, Antiwar.com (13 Apr 2007) <link>.

David Mattingly, An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire (London: Penguin, 2006), review by Renate Kurzmann, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.04.22 <link>.

Deborah D. Avant, The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security (NY: Cambridge U Pr, 2005), review by Deborah Kidwell, Military Review (Mar/Apr 2007) 119 <link>.

Elizabeth Lutes Hillman, Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Pr, 2005), review by Janet G. Valentine, Military Review (Mar/Apr 2007) 118-119 <link>.

Paul Murphy, The Wolves of Islam (Washington: Potomac Books, 2006), review by Robert M. Cassidy, Military Review (Mar/Apr 2007) 118 <link>.

Richard H. Schultz & Andrea J. Dew, Insurgents, Terrorists and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat (NY: Columbia U Pr, 2006), review by Walter Ladwig, Military Review (Mar/Apr 2007) 115-116 <link>.

Ali M. Ansari, Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East (NY: Basic Books, 2006), review by Steve Leonard, Military Review (Mar/Apr 2007) 115-116 <link>.

Max Boot, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today (NY: Gotham, 2006), reviews by Derek Leebaert, Washington Post (19 Nov 2006) <link>, William H. McNeill, NYRB 53.20 (21 Dec 2006) <link>, Paul McLeary, CS Monitor (23 Jan 2007) <link>, Bill Latham, Military Review (Mar/Apr 2007) 116 <link>, & Martin Sieff, American Conservative (12 Mar 2007) <link>.