Archives: Apr-May-Jun 2009
 
Articles

William Wheeler, "Letter From Mardan: A War of Unintended Consequences--The Fight for Control of the Swat Valley and the Future of Pakistan," Foreign Affairs (28 May 2009) <link>.

David E. Sanger & Thom Shankar, "Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars," NYT (29 May 2009) <link>.

Stephen Holmes, "Vice: The Dispiriting Legacy of Dick Cheney," The Nation (27 May 2009) <link>.

Rick Reyes, "What Was I Fighting For?" The Nation (18 May 2009) <link>.

Greg Jaffe, "A Single-Minded Focus on Dual Wars," WaPo (15 May 2009) <link>.

Tom Hayden, "Understanding the Long War," The Nation (7 May 2009) <link>.

David E. Sanger, "U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses," NYT (28 Apr 2009) <link>.

Malcolm Gladwell, "How David Beats Goliath: When Underdogs Break the Rules," New Yorker (11 May 2009) <link>.

Joe Conason, "Torture and Truthiness," Salon.com (27 Apr 2009) <link>.

Scott Shane, "Divisions Arose on Rough Tactics for Qaeda Figure," NYT (18 Apr 2009) <link>.

Carrie Johnson & Julie Tate, "New Interrogation Details Emerge," WaPo (17 Apr 2009) <link>.

Michael Gerson, "A War Fighter's Budget," WaPo (10 Apr 2009) <link>.

Greg Jaffe, "Short '06 Lebanon War Stokes Pentagon Debate," WaPo (6 Apr 2009) <link>.

Hugh Fitzgerald, "If General Petraeus Had Read War And Peace," New English Review (Apr 2009) <link>.

Mark Danner, "US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites," NYRB 56.6 (9 Apr 2009) <link>.

Reviews

Darrell Griffin, Sr. & Darrell Griffin, Jr., Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime (Ashland, OH: Atlas, 2009), review by Anthony Swofford, B&N Review (16 Jun 2009) <link>.

The Hurt Locker, dir. Kathryn Bigelow (2009), review by A.O. Scott, NYT (26 Jun 2009) <link>.

Leonhard Burckhardt, Militärgeschichte der Antike (Munich: Beck, 2008), review by Patricia Baker, BMCR 2009.05.50 <link>.

Edward Lucas, The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), review by Greg Waldmann, Open Letters (30 Apr 2009) <link>.

Christa Steinby, The Roman Republican Navy: From the Sixth Century to 167 B.C. (Helsinki: Soc Sci Fenn, 2007), review by Christopher J. Dart, BMCR 2009.04.31 <link>.