Archives: Jul-Aug-Sep 2004
 
Articles

Farnaz Fassihi, "WSJ Reporter's E-mail [from Baghdad] to Friends," Poynteronline (29 Sep 2004) <link>.

Christopher Shea, "The Power of Positive Illusions," Boston Globe (26 Sep 2004) <link>.

European Stability Initiative, "The Lausanne Principle: Multiethnicity, Territory and the Future of Kosovo's Serbs" <link>.

Robin Wright and Thomas E. Ricks, "Bremer Criticizes Troop Levels: Ex-Overseer of Iraq Says U.S. Effort was Hampered Early On," Washington Post (5 Sep 2004) <link>.

Josh White, "Influx of Wounded Strains VA: Claims Backlog Besets Returning U.S. Troops," Washington Post (3 Sep 2004) <link>.

Shane Harris, "Krohn's Rules," GovExec.com (15 Sep 2004) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson, "A Strident Minority: Anti-Bush US Troops in Iraq," CS Monitor (21 Sep 2004) <link>.

Juan Cole, "If America Were Iraq," Antiwar.com (23 Sep 2004) <link>.

Richard Norton-Taylor, "The Need to Wrongfoot Saddam," Guardian Unlimited (21 Sep 2004) <link>.

John Barry and Dan Ephron, "War-Gaming the Mullahs," Newsweek (27 Sep 2004) <link>.

Michel Marriott, "Take Kerry's Swift Boat for a Nonpolitical Spin," NY Times (16 Sep 2004) <link>.

Mark Rose, "Riding with Alexander" [interview with Robin Lane Fox], Archaeology (14 Sep 2004) <link>.

George Packer, "The Political War," New Yorker (27 Sep 2004) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Strains Felt By Guard Unit on Eve Of War Duty," Washington Post (19 Sep 2004) <link>.

Erich Follath, and Georg Mascolo, "Dancing around the Bomb," Der Spiegel 38 (13 Sep 2004) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Modern Soldiers from Ancient Texts," Washington Post (17 Sep 2004) <link>.

Nicolas Rothwell, "In Iraq's Wasteland, Total Chaos Looms," The Australian (16 Sep 2004) <link>.

Mark Benjamin, "Press Reports on U.S. Casualties: About 17,000 Short, UPI Says," Editor & Publisher (15 Sep 2004) <link>.

Guy Dinmore, "US Debates Military Strikes on 'Nuclear Iran,'" Financial Times (15 Sep 2004) <link>.

Paul Krugman, "Taking on the Myth," NY Times (14 Sep 2004) <link>.

Georgie Anne Geyer, "Three Years Later, We Struggle to Define 'Terrorism,'" Yahoo News Op/Ed (12 Sep 2004) <link>.

Georgie Anne Geyer, "'I Thought We Were Different,'" Yahoo News Op/Ed (12 Sep 2004) <link>.

Adam Gopnik, "The Big One: Historians Rethink the War to End All Wars," New Yorker (23 Aug 2004) <link>.

Jonathan Rauch, "Iraq Is No Vietnam. But Vietnam Holds Lessons for Iraq," National Journal (10 Sep 2004) <link>.

James Schlesinger, "The Truth about Our Soldiers," OpinionJournal [WSJ] (11 Sep 2004) <link>.

Claude Salhani, "The Four Day War: The Iran/Israel Conflagration, A History," American Conservative (13 Sept 2004) <link>.

Thomas Goss, "Gettysburg's 'Decisive Battle,'" Military Review (Jul/Aug 2004) 11-16 <link>.

Gregory A. Daddis, "Understanding Fear's Effect on Unit Effectiveness," Military Review (Jul/Aug 2004) 22-27 <link>.

Lester W. Grau, "Something Old, Something New: Guerillas, Terrorists, and Intelligence Analysis," Military Review (Jul/Aug 2004) 42-49 <link>.

George E. Reed, "Toxic Leadership," Military Review (Jul/Aug 2004) 67-71 <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "The Crazy Scheme Hatched by the Pentagon that Frightened Ike," History News Network (16 Aug 2004) <link>.

William Harris, "How to Start a War! Helen of Troy and the WMD" <link>.

Babak Dehghanpisheh, "A War's Hidden Hands," Newsweek (6 Sep 2004) <link>.

Siegesmund von Islemann and Gerhard Spörl, "Rumsfeld's Withdrawal," Der Spiegel (23 Aug 2004) <link>.

Nicholas Lemann, "Dangers Present," New Yorker (23 Aug 2004) <link>.

Dan Baum, "Two Soldiers: How the Dead Come Home," New Yorker (9 Aug 2004) <link>.

Tim Vanderpool, "Iraq Call-ups Sap Manpower Back Home," CS Monitor (18 Aug 2004) <link>.

Joshua M. Marshall, Laura Rozen, and Paul Glastris, "Iran-Contra II?" Washington Monthly (Sep 2004) <link>.

Steve Silberman, "The War Room," Wired 12.9 (Sep 2004) <link>.

Victor D. Hanson, "The Fog of Battle," National Review (27 Aug 2004) <link>.

Ian Garrick Mason, "The General in His Library," Boston Globe (22 Aug 2004) <link>.

Harold Brown and Michael May, "Edward Teller in the Public Arena," PhysicsToday.org (Aug 2004) <link>.

David Englin, "Troop Movement," New Republic (18 Aug 2004) <link>.

Susan Watkins, "Vichy on the Tigris," New Left Review 28 (Jul/Aug 2004) <link>.

Norman Podhoretz, "World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win," Commentary (Sep 2004) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Outlook: Shiite Iraq" [online discussion], Washington Post (16 Aug 2004) <link>.

Walter Laqueur, "The Terrorism to Come," Policy Review 126 (Aug/Sep 2004) <link>.

Susanna Rustin, "Hello to All That" [on Paul Fussell], Guardian Unlimited (31 Jul 2004) <link>.

"How to Lose the War on Terror: A CIA bin Laden Expert’s Lament" [interview with anon. author of Imperial Hubris], American Conservative (2 Aug 2004) <link>.

"They Believed There was a Risk" [interview with Bob Woodward], Der Spiegel (12 Jul 2004) <link>.

John Kenneth Galbraith, "A Cloud over Civilisation" [extract from The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time], Guardian Unlimited (15 Jul 2004) <link>.

The 9/11 Commission Report: Executive Summary, pdf <link> or html <link>.

Juan Cole, "Bush's Twisted Idea of 'Safer,'" Antiwar.com (15 Jul 2004) <link>.

Diana B. Henriques, "Basic Training Doesn't Guard against Insurance Pitch to G.I.'s," NY Times (20 Jul 2004) <link>.

Christian G. Appy, "The Ghosts of War," Chronicle Review 50.44 (9 Jul 2004) B12 <link>.

Robert Haug, "An Informed Commentator" [interview with Juan Cole], Michigan Today 36.2 (Sum 2004) <link>.

Phillip Carter, "The Crucible: How the Iraq Disaster is Making the U.S. Army Stronger," Washington Monthly (Jul/Aug 2004) <link>.

Joseph Stahl, "Fate Saves 12th N.H. Volunteer until 1911," Washington Times (3 Jul 2004) <link>.

Dan Baum, "The Price of Valor," New Yorker (12/19 Jul 2004) <link>.

Timothy Naftali, "Berlin to Baghdad: The Pitfalls of Hiring Enemy Intelligence," Foreign Affairs (Jul/Aug 2004) <link>.

Phyllis Bennis, "The Price of Imperial Folly," AlterNet (15 Jul 2004) <link>.

Michael Norris, "Wounded Soldiers React to Doonesbury," Pentagram (9 Jul 2004) <link>.

Scott Ritter, "Facing the Enemy on the Ground," AlterNet (9 Jul 2004) <link>.

T. Trent Gegax, "What, My Army Worry?" Newsweek (10 Jul 2004) <link>.

Arnold Beichman, "The Gaul of Iraq," Washington Times (11 Jul 2004) <link>.

Jim Drinkard, "Barriers to Voting Remain for Troops Deployed Abroad," USA Today (13 Jul 2004) <link>.

David Corn, "Senate WMD Report Whacks CIA, Not Bush," The Nation (9 Jul 2004) <link>.

George Friedman, "The IRR [Individual Ready Reserve]: Emptying the Cupboard," Stratfor.com (6 Jul 2004) <link>.

Anahad O'Connor, "1 in 6 Iraq Veterans is Found to Suffer Stress-Related Disorder," NY Times (1 Jul 2004) <link>.

Anthony Lewis, "Making Torture Legal," New York Books 51.12 (15 Jul 2004) <link>.

Robert Zelnick, "Iraq: More at Stake Than Vietnam," Hoover Digest (Sum 2004) <link>.

Larry Diamond, "The New War for Iraq," Hoover Digest (Sum 2004) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "A Time for Reckoning: Ten Lessons to Take Away from Iraq," American Conservative (19 Jul 2004) <link>.

Douglas McCollam, "How Chalabi Played the Press," Columbia Journalism Review (Jul/Aug 2004) <link>.

Shawn Macomber, "Amoral Hazard," The American Spectator (9 Jul 2004) <link>.

Noah Schachtman, "Data Nightmare at Pentagon," Wired.com (8 Jul 2004) <link>.

Jim Krane, "Iraq Insurgency Far Larger Than Thought," Salon.com (8 Jul 2004) <link>.

Ralph Peters, "In Praise of Attrition," Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 24-32 <link>.

John Gordon and Jerry Sollinger, "The Army's Dilemma," Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 33-45 <link>.

Robert S. Bolia, "Overreliance on Technology in Warfare: The Yom Kippur War as a Case Study," Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 46-56 <link>.

Robert M. Cassidy, "Back to the Street without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars," Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 73-83 <link>.

Fred Anderson, "What Would George Celebrate?" NY Times (3 Jul 2004) <link>.

Fred Barnes, "The Extraordinary Success of D-Day," Weekly Standard (5/12 Jul 2004) <link>.

John B. Judis, "Imperial Amnesia," Foreign Policy (Jul/Aug 2004) <link>.

Bruce Hoffman, "Plan of Attack," Atlantic Online (Jul/Aug 2004) <link>.

Scott Atran, "Mishandling Suicide Terrorism," The Washington Quarterly 27.3 (Sum 2004) <link>.


Reviews

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Sep 2004) <link>.

Mark K. Christ, ed., Getting Used to Being Shot At: The Spence Family Civil War Letters (Fayetteville: U Arkansas Pr, 2002), H-Net Reviews (Sep 2004) <link>.

Emily O. Goldman and Leslie C. Eliason, eds., The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas (Palo Alto: Stanford U Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Sep 2004) <link>.

Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (New York: Random House, 2004), National Review Online (23 Sep 2004) <link>.

John W. Brinsfield, et al., eds., Faith in the Fight: Civil War Chaplains (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Sep 2004) <link>.

William E. Odom, Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America (New Haven, CT: Yale U Pr, 2002), Studies in Intelligence 48.2 (2004) <link>.

Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (New York: Wiley, 2003), Studies in Intelligence 48.2 (2004) <link>.

Benjamin Weiser, A Secret Life (New York: Public Affairs, 2004), Studies in Intelligence 48.2 (2004) <link>.

V. S. Khristoforov, et al., Lubyanka in the Days of the Battle for Moscow: Materials from the Organs of State Security SSSR from the Central Archive FSB Russia (Moscow: Izdatel'skii dom "Zvonnitsa-MG," 2002), Studies in Intelligence 48.2 (2004) <link>.

David Kahn, The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Intelligence (New Haven, CT: Yale U Pr, 2004), Studies in Intelligence 48.2 (2004) <link>.

Thomas P.M. Barnett, The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Putnam, 2004), Asia Times (25 Sep 2004) <link>.

Jörg Muth, Flucht aus dem militärischen Alltag: Ursachen und individuelle Ausprägung der Desertion in der Armee Friedrichs des Grossen (Freiburg: Rombach, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher: The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry (Lexington: U Pr of Kentucky, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

Algis Valiunas, Churchill's Military Histories: A Rhetorical Study (Lanham/Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

Pádraig Lenihan, ed., Conquest and Resistance: War in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2001), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

William Stueck, ed., The Korean War in World History (Lexington: U Kentucky Pr, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

Edward G. Longacre, Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2002), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

Stephen Brumwell, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763 (New York: Cambridge U Pr, 2002), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

Jon Lee Anderson, The Fall of Baghdad (New York: Penguin, 2004), Washington Post (19 Sep 2004) <link>.

David Fiedler, The Enemy among Us: POWs in Missouri during World War II (Saint Louis: Missouri Hist Soc Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

Tanya Luckins, The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War (Fremantle: Curtin U Books, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004) <link>.

Kurt D. Bergemann, Brackett's Battalion: Minnesota Cavalry in the Civil War and Dakota War (St. Paul: Borealis Books, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

J. L. Granatstein, Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (Toronto: U Toronto Pr, 2002), H-Net Reviews (Aug 2004 <link>.

Axel Gebhardt, Imperiale Politik und provinziale Entwicklung: Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Kaiser, Heer und Städten im Syrien der vorseverischen Zeit (Berlin: Akad. Verl., 2002), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.04 <link>.

Jacqueline Glass Campbell, When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front ( Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Karin J. MacHardy, War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622 (Basingbroke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Chaim Herzog, The War of Atonement: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War (London: Greenhill Books, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

George F. Pearce, Pensacola during the Civil War: A Thorn in the Side of the Confederacy. (Gainesville: U Florida Pr, 2000), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

James G. Cusick, The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida (Gainesville: U Florida Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Steve Attridge, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Identity in Late Victorian Culture: Civil and Military Worlds. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Christina S. Jarvis, The Male Body At War: American Masculinity during World War II (Dekalb: U Northern Illinois Pr, 2004), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Gottlob Herbert Bidermann, In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front trans. and ed. Derek S. Zumbro (Lawrence: U Pr Kansas, 2001), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (Lawrence: U Pr Kansas, 2002), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Philipp Witkop, ed., German Students' War Letters, trans. A. F. Wedd (Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania Pr, 2002), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

David C. Stahl, The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei's Writings on the Pacific War (Honolulu: U Hawaii Pr, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

M. Kathryn Brown and Travis W. Stanton, eds., Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare (Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Books, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Daniel Moran and Arthur Waldron, edd., The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Campbell Brown, Campbell Brown's Civil War: With Ewell and the Army of Northern Virginia, ed. Terry L. Jones (Baton Rouge: U Louisiana Pr, 2001), H-Net Reviews (Jul 2004) <link>.

Robert Greenwald, Uncovered: The War on Iraq [documentary film], American Prospect (20 Aug 2004) <link>.

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004), NY Times (25 Jul 2004) <link>.

Adam Zamoyski, Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), Washington Post (8 Aug 2004) <link>.

Margaret Roxan, Paul Holder, Roman Military Diplomas IV (London: Inst. of Classical Studies, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.66 <link>.

Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (New York: Putnam, 2004), CS Monitor (27 Jul 2004) <link>.

Nathan Rosenstein, Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.56 <link>.

Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (London: Penguin / New York: Norton, 2004), The Age (26 Jun 2004) <link>, Telegraph.co.uk (28 Jun 2004) <link>, Guardian Unlimited (4 Jul 2004) <link>, The Post.ie (24 Jul 2004) <link>.

Anon., Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Dulles, VA: Brassey's, 2004), Washington Post (27 Jun 2004) <link>, NY Times (9 Jul 2004) <link>, CS Monitor (13 Jul 2004) <link>, and Der Spiegel (19 Jul 2004) <link>.

Thomas S. Burns, Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.—A.D. 400 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Pr, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.25 <link>.

Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich, Wounding and Death in the Iliad: Homeric Techniques of Description, trans. P. Jones and G. Wright (London: Duckworth, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.18 <link>.

A.S. Hamrah, review-essay on David L. Robb, Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004), Boston Globe (4 Jul 2004) <link>.

Jon D. Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.13 <link> and Scholia Reviews 13 (2004) 34 <link>.

Craige B. Champion, ed., Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.06 <link> and Scholia Reviews 13 (2004) 18 <link>.

Geoffrey Wawro, The Franco-Prusiian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 (New York: Cambridge U Pr, 2003), Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 151-53 <link>.

Stephen W. Sears, Gettysburg (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 153-55 <link>.

Stephen T. Ross, ed., U.S. War Plans: 1938-1945 (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002), Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 158-59 <link>.

Thomas J. Goss, The War within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship during the Civil War (Lawrence: U of Kansas Pr, 2003), Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 161-63 <link>.

Christian G. Appy, The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides (New York: Viking, 2003), Parameters 34.2 (Sum 2004) 163-65 <link>.

James P. Holoka, ed. and trans., Simone Weil's The Iliad or the Poem of Force: A Critical Edition (New York: Lang, 2003), Scholia Reviews 13 (2004) 10 <link>, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.02.24 <link> and 2004.02.37 <link>, The Key Reporter [Phi Beta Kappa] 69.2 (Spr 2004) <link>, French Studies 58.3 (2004) <link>.

Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), The Nation (22 Apr 2004) <link>, NY Observer (26 Apr 2004) <link>, Guardian Unlimited (8 May 2004) <link>, and Blue Ear (12 Jul 2004) <link>.

Robert E. Gaebel, Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World (Norman: U Okla Pr, 2002), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.07.15 <link>, and H-Net Reviews (Apr 2004) <link>