Articles

Benjamin R. Barber, Can Islam Accommodate Democracy Or Democracy Accommodate Islam?" ResetDOC (28 Jun 2008) <link>.

Michael R. Gordon, "Occupation Plan for Iraq Faulted in Army History," NYT (29 Jun 2008) <link>.

Ahmed Ali & Dahr Jamail, "Obama v. McCain: What Do Iraqis Think?" AlterNet (27 Jun 2008) <link>.

Josh White, "Pentagon Report Anticipates Rising Violence in Afghanistan," WaPo (28 Jun 2008) <link>.

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship, "It Was Oil, All Along," BuzzFlash (27 Jun 2008) <link>.

Christopher Hitchens, "A War Worth Fighting," Newsweek (14 Jun 2008) <link>.

Patrick Cockburn, "Revealed: Secret Plan to Keep Iraq under U.S. Control," The Independent, rpt. AlterNet (6 Jun 2008) <link>.

John Lichfield, "The Final Battle: Remembering D-Day's Veterans," The Independent (6 Jun 2008) <link>.

Zbigniew Brzezinski & William Odom, "A Sensible Path on Iran," WaPo (27 May 2008) <link>.

Walter Zapotoczny, "The Rape of Nanking: Reasons and Recrimination," MHO (27 May 2008) <link>.

Rob Dean, "Small Battle, Big Implications:
Japan Lost the Upper Hand When It Lost New Guinea," MHO (24 Apr 2008) <link>.

Glenn Kutler, "U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq: A Perspective on Year 5," iCasualties.org (Sum 2008) <link>.

Dan Eggen & Linton Weeks, "McClellan Says Book's Tone Evolved," WaPo (30 May 2008) <link>.

Edward G. Lengel, "Why Didn't We Listen to Their War Stories?" WaPo (25 May 2008) <link>.

Gareth Porter, "Where Are Those Iranian Weapons in Iraq?" Antiwar.com (22 May 2008) <link>.

Philip Weiss, "Mr. Zbig," American Conservative (5 May 2008) <link>.

Sue Halpern, "Virtual Iraq: Using Simulation to Treat a New Generation of Traumatized Veterans," New Yorker (19 May 2008) <link>.

Charles V. Peña, "Bush's Iraq War Harms US Security," Consortiumnews.com (15 May 2008) <link>.

Andrew Bacevich, "The 'Long War' Fallacy," LA Times (13 May 2008) <link>.

Josh White, "Gates Urges Military to Focus on Current Wars," WaPo (13 May 2008) <link>.

Jennifer C. Kerr, "Number of Disabled Vets Up with Iraq, Afghan Wars," Yahoo! News [AP] (11 May 2008) <link>.

Ron Rosenbaum, "A Real Nuclear Option for the Nominees," Slate (9 May 2008) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "Surging to Defeat," American Conservative (21 Apr 2008) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson, "Woman Gains Silver Star--and Removal from Combat," WaPo.com (1 May 2008) <link>.

Jeffrey Goldberg, "Unforgiven," Atlantic.com (May 2008) <link>.

Robert Burns, " Top US Commando Says Strain of War Limits Forces Elsewhere," Yahoo! News [AP] (5 May 2008) <link>.

Sam Dagher, "Iraq's Simmering Ethnic War over Kirkuk," CS Monitor (24 Apr 2008) <link>, rpt. AlterNet (29 Apr 2008) <link>.

"The U.S. Military Index," Foreign Policy (Mar/Apr 2008) <link>.

Tony Judt, "What Have We Learned, If Anything?" NYRB (1 May 2008) <link>.

Gareth Porter, "Petraeus Promotion Frees Cheney to Threaten Iran," Antiwar.com (24 Apr 2008) <link>.

Thom Shanker, "2 Commanders Picked to Lead War Efforts beyond 2008," NYT (24 Apr 2008) <link>.

Erica Goode, "Rice, in Iraq, Praises Moves Against Militias," NYT (21 Apr 2008) <link>.

Nathaniel R. Helms, "Damage Control Team Failed to Prevent Haditha Media Nightmare," Defend Our Marines (21 Apr 2008) <link>.

Suzi Steffen, "Defeated in Iraq: How America Lost the War" [interview with Jonathan Steele], AlterNet (19 Apr 2008) <link>.

Pauline Jelinek, "Nearly 1 in 5 Troops Has Mental Problems after War Service," Yahoo! News [AP] (17 Apr 2008) <link>.

Jessica Guiney, "Afghanistan Update: March 1-31, 2008," Center for Defense Information (11 Apr 2008) <link>.

Bruce Fein, "Making War Difficult," Washington Times (15 Apr 2008) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "Petraeus Points to War with Iran," Antiwar.com (11 Apr 2008) <link>.

Walter Pincus, "Irregular Warfare, Both Future and Present," WaPo (7 Apr 2008) <link>.

"Purple Hearts" [slide show], NYT (2008) <link>.

Philip Kennicott, "The War Comes Home," WaPo (2 Apr 2008) <link>.

Justin Ewers, "Why Don't More Colleges Teach Military History?" USNWR (3 Apr 2008) <link>.

David Rose, "The Gaza Bombshell," Vanity Fair (Apr 2008) <link>.

Reviews

Ian W. Toll, Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (NY: Norton, 2006), review by Caleb J. Klingler, MHO (26 Apr 2008) <link>.

Michael B. Charles, Vegetius in Context: Establishing the Date of the Epitoma Rei Militaris (Stuttgart: Steiner Verl, 2007), review by Everett L. Wheeler, BMCR 2008.06.42 <link>.

Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, Libérez la patrie! Patriotisme et politique en Grèce ancienne (Paris: Editions Belin, 2006), review by Kostas Vlassopoulos, BMCR 2008.06.42 <link>.

Pat Southern, The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History (Oxford: OUP, 2007), review by David W. Madsen, BMCR 2008.06.35 <link>.

Stanley G. Payne, Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2008), review by John Wilson, Books & Culture (May/Jun 2008) <link>.

Robert Redford, dir., Lions for Lambs (2007), review by Frank Beaver, Michigan Today (17 Jun 2008) <link>.

Carol G. Thomas & Craig Conant, The Trojan War (Norman: U Oklahoma Pr, 2007), review by Silvio Bär, BMCR 2008.06.11 <link>.

Andrew Ward, The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), review by Adam Kirsch, NY Sun (4 Jun 2008) <link>, rpt. Powell's (11 Jun 2008) <link>.

Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (London: Hutchinson, 2008), review by Carlo Wolff, CS Monitor (2 Jun 2008) <link>.

Joseph Glatthaar, General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse (NY: Free Pr, 2008), review by Randy Dotinga, CS Monitor (20 May 2008) <link>.

H. Börm, Prokop und die Perser (Stuttgart: Steiner Verl, 2007), review by Geoffrey Greatrex, BMCR 2008.05.03 <link>.

Winslow T. Wheeler & Lawrence J. Korb, Military Reform: A Reference Handbook (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007), review by William S. Lind, Antiwar.com (29 May 2008) <link>.

Robert Kagan, The Return of History and the End of Dreams (NY: Knopf, 2008), review by  Francis Fukuyama, [London] Sunday Times (25 May 2008) <link>.

Jason Phillips, Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility (Athens: U Georgia Pr, 2007), review by Susannah Ural Bruce, HNR (May 2008) <link>.

John Lawrence Tone, War and Genocide in Cuba 1895-1898 (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2006), review by Jonathan Krohn, HNR (May 2008) <link>.

Michael J. Neufeld, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (NY: Knopf, 2007), review by Mark Walker, American Scientist (May/Jun 2008) <link>.

Norman Podhoretz, World War IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofascism (NY: Doubleday, 2007), review by Benjamin Kerstein, Azure 32 (Spr 2008) <link>.

Douglas J. Feith, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (NY: HarperCollins, 2008), review by Peter Grier, CS Monitor (15 May 2008) <link>.

Clarence Adams, An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China, ed. Della Adams & Lewis H. Carlson (Amherst: U Mass Pr, 2007), review by James T. Gillam, HNR (May 2008) <link>.

Jason McElligott & David L. Smith, edd., Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), review by Jasmin L. Johnson, HNR (May 2008) <link>.

David E. Settje, Lutherans and the Longest War: Adrift on a Sea of Doubt about the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964-1975 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007), review by Jacqueline Whitt, HNR (Apr 2008) <link>.

Melton A. McLaurin, The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2007), review by Heather Marshall, HNR (Apr 2008) <link>.

Norman J. W. Goda, Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), review by David Yelton, HNR (Apr 2008) <link>.

Risa A. Brooks & Elizabeth A. Stanley, edd., Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness (Stanford: Stanford U Pr, 2007), review by Jonas Hagman, HNR (Apr 2008) <link>.

Steven Pressfield, Killing Rommel (NY: Doubleday, 2008), review by Jerry D. Morelock, AGM (2 May 2008) <link>.

Harriet Crawford, ed., Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: From Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein (NY: Oxford U Pr, 2007), review by Gary Beckman, BMCR 2008.04.39 <link>.

Klaus Gensicke, Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten: Eine politische Biographie Amin el-Husseinis (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007), review by John Rosenthal, Policy Review (Apr/May 2008) <link>.

Daniel Mendelsohn, "Arms and the Man: What Was Herodotus Trying to Tell Us?" [review of Robert B. Strassler, ed., & Andrea L. Purvis, tr., The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (NY: Pantheon, 2007)], New Yorker (28 Apr 2008) <link>.

Richard A. Gregory, Roman Manchester: The University of Manchester's Excavations within the Vicus 2001-5 (Oxford: Oxbow, 2007), review by Martin Pitts, BMCR 2008.04.19 <link>.

Gregory A. Waselkov, A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 (Tuscaloosa: U Alabama Pr, 2006), review by Stephen Warren, HNR (Apr 2008) <link>.

Joseph T. Glatthaar & James Kirby Martin, Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution (NY: Hill & Wang, 2006), review by Glenn F. Williams, HNR (Apr 2008) <link>.

Richard A. Gabriel, Muhammad: Islam's First Great General (Norman: U Oklahoma Pr, 2007), review by Timothy May, HNR (Apr 2008) <link>.

Roy L. McCullough, Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV’s France (Leiden: Brill , 2007), review by Tom Lewis, HNR (Apr 2008) <link>.

Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2006), review by Robert T. McKenzie, Books & Culture (Mar/Apr 2008) <link>.

Peter B. Messent & Steve Courtney, edd., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story (Athens: U Georgia Pr, 2006), review by Gerald L. Sittser, Books & Culture (Mar/Apr 2008) <link>.

Chandra Manning,What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (NY: Vintage, 2008), review by Lauren F. Winner, Books & Culture (Mar/Apr 2008) <link>.