Articles

Matthew G. St. Clair, "Air Support of the Allied Landings in Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio," Joint Force Quarterly 39 (2005.3) 97-107 <link>.

Gerard Fogarty, "Guantanamo Bay: Undermining the Global War on Terror," Joint Force Quarterly 39 (2005.3) 59-67 <link>.

Brian M. Jenkins, "Four Years After 9/11, War on Terror Slogs On," Rand Commentary [orig. San Diego Union Tribune (11 Sep 2005)] <link>.

Emily Hunt, "Al-Qaeda’s North African Franchise: The GSPC Regional Threat," PolicyWatch #1034 (28 Sep 2005) <link>.

Christine Beamer, "Professor Addresses Middle East Issues in Blog" [interview with Juan Cole], The Michigan Daily (30 Sep 2005) <link>

Martin Sieff, "Iraq Has More Bombs but No Trained Army," World Peace Herald (30 Sep 2005) <link>.

Fouad Ajami, "Heart of Darkness: From Zarqawi to the Man on the Street, Sunni Arabs Fear Shiite Emancipation," Wall Street Journal (28 Sep 2005) <link>.

Gilbert Achcar, "Iraq Developments," Informed Comment (28 Sep 2005) <link>.

Janet Maslin, "Using History as a Guide, but Skipping the Details" [Doctorow], NY Times (27 Sep 2005) <link>.

Christopher Hitchens vs. George Galloway, "The War over the Iraq War," Foreign Policy (Sep 2005) <link>.

Andrew Buncombe, "US Forced to Import Bullets from Israel as Troops Use 250,000 for Every Rebel Killed," The Independent (25 Sep 2005) <link>.

Douglass K. Daniel, "Bush's Words on Iraq Echo LBJ in 1967," Seattle Post-Intelligencer (21 Sep 2005) <link>.

Yochi J. Dreazen, "Basra Violence Challenges U.S. Strategy," Wall Street Journal (21 Sep 2005) <link>.

[Staff], "Good Mourning, Vietnam: Pew, AP Probe Iraq Link," Editor & Publisher (22 Sep 2005) <link>.

Jason Vest, "Willful Ignorance: How the Pentagon Sent the Army to Iraq without a Counterinsurgency Doctrine," Bull. of the Atomic Scientists 61.04 (Jul/Aug 2005) 40-48 <link>.

BBC News, "War Crimes Chief Accuses Vatican" (20 Sep 2005) <link>.

Mike Gifford, "Why the US Army Reserves and Readiness Don't Mix," DefenseWatch (16 Sep 2005) <link>.

Robert Dreyfuss, "Hearing a Faint Iraq Strategy," ThomasPaine.com (16 Sep 2005) <link>.

Ferry Biedermann, "Syria: A New Iraq in the Making," Antiwar.com (17 Sep 2005) <link>.

Mark Sappenfield, "US Tempers Its View of Victory in Iraq," CS Monitor (16 Sep 2005) <link>.

Randy Dotinga, "Wartime Memoirs by Women in Vogue," CS Monitor (14 Sep 2005) <link>.

Patrick Walters, "Terror Cells In for the Long Haul," The Australian (15 Sep 2005) <link>.

Christine Gibson, "America Defeats Mexico, Wins the West," American Heritage (14 Sep 2005) <link>.

Alan Riding, "Rewriting Victors' View of Persian History," NY Times (14 Sep 2005) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Abusing America's Fear of Terrorism," Antiwar.com (13 Sep 2005) <link>.

"Werther," "What Victor Davis Hanson Does to History," CounterPunch (7 Sep 2005) <link>.

Andrew Roberts, "Trafalgar Then and Now," New Criterion 24 (Sep 2005) <link>.

Barry Schwartz, "The Sunk-Cost Fallacy," Slate (9 Sep 2005) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Christopher Hitchens Is Still Hopeful about Iraq?" Salon (3 Sep 2005), rpt. History News Network (7 Sep 2005) <link>.

Fred Kaplan, "How Do We Win in Iraq?" Slate (9 Sep 2005) <link>.

Ivan Eland, "GloboCop Runs Amok: Bipartisan Foolishness in U.S. Foreign Policy," The Chronicle Review (9 Sep 2005) <link>.

Nathaniel R. Helms, "Now That F Company Is Home from Iraq Another Battle Is About to Begin," Defense Watch (1 Sep 2005) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "Iraq in America: At the Front of Nowhere at All: The Perfect Storm and the Feral City," TomDispatch.com (4 Sep 2005) <link>.

Michael Lind, "Tragic Costs of Bush’s Iraq Obsession," Financial Times (5 Sep 2005) <link>.

Charles C. Mann, "Native Ingenuity," Boston Globe (4 Sep 2005) <link>.

Mark Sappenfield, "Behind Base Votes: Skepticism of Pentagon," CS Monitor (29 Aug 2005) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Looting There, Looting Here; Fallujah There, New Orleans Here," Informed Comment (4 Sep 2005) <link>.

Steven Thomma, "Silent Majority of Americans Oppose Iraq War, but Don't Support Protests," Knight Ridder (1 Sep 2005) <link>.

Dahr Jamail, "Two 'Green Zones,'" Electronic Iraq (29 Aug 2005) <link>.

David R. Francis, "More Costly Than 'The War To End All Wars,'" CS Monitor (29 Aug 2005) <link>.

Lewis Simons, "A Tale of Two Wars: In Baghdad, I Hear Echoes of Saigon in '67," Washington Post (28 Aug 2005) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "Call It a Day: We've Done All We Can Do in Iraq," Washington Post (21 Aug 2005) <link>.

Doug Bandow, "Bring It On, and On, and On," Reason Online (22 Aug 2005) <link>.

Olivier Roy,"Britain: Homegrown Terror," Le Monde diplomatique (Aug 2005) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Ten Things Congress Could Demand from Bush on Iraq," Informed Comment (22 Aug 2005) <link>.

Harold Meyerson, "Their War, Too," American Prospect (10 Sep 2005) <link>.

Jamie Glazov, with Jessica Stern, Theodore Dalrymple, Nancy Kobrin, & Hans-Peter Raddatz, "Symposium: Through the Eyes of a Suicide Bomber," FrontPage Magazine (12 Aug 2005) <link>.

Stacy Teicher, "No-Fly Zones for Military Recruiters," CS Monitor (18 Aug 2005) <link>.

Joe Pappalardo, "A Single Day Changed Supply Strategy in Iraq," National Defense (Aug 2005) <link>.

Michael Ware, "Inside Iran's Secret War for Iraq," Time (22 Aug 2005) <link>.

Boleslav L. Lichterman, "Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent," BMJ (13 Aug 2005) <link>.

Philip  Sherwell, "Bush Slaps Down Top General After He Calls for Troops to Be Pulled Out of Iraq," Telegraph (14 Aug 2005) <link>.

Daniel Bergner, "The Other Army," NY Times (14 Aug 2005) <link>.

William Kristol, "Bush v. Rumsfeld," Weekly Standard 10.45 (15 Aug 2005) <link>.

Jennifer Lind, "Think Again: Japanese Textbooks," Foreign Policy (Aug 2005) <link>.

John Hockenberry, "The Blogs of War," Wired 13.08 (Aug 2005) <link>.

Richard Koenigsberg, "The Soldier as Sacrifical Victim: Awakening from the Nightmare of History" <link>.

Christopher Hitchens, "Losing the Iraq War: Can the Left Really Want Us To?" Slate (8 Aug 2005) <link>.

William O. Beeman, "Understanding an 'Islamic' State of Iraq," NY Daily News (10 Aug 2005) <link>.

Mike Ferner, "What One Mom Has to Say to George Bush," Electronic Iraq (9 Aug 2005) <link>.

Martin Sieff, "Analysis: Iraq Statistics Tell Grim Story," World Peace Herald (8 Aug 2005) <link>.

Peter Dolan, "Dangers of the Sunni Triangle," Patriot Ledger (3 Aug 2005) <link>.

Tom Lasseter, "Insurgents in Western Iraq Town Prove an Elusive Enemy for Marines," Duluth News Tribune (7 Aug 2005) <link>.

James Lamont, "The Atomic Cannon," Invention & Technology (Sum 2005) <link>.

Stephen Zanichkowsky, "The Beauty of the Bomb," Invention & Technology (Sum 2005) <link>.

Nancy Montgomery, "Military Aims to Remove Stigma from Seeking Therapy for Post-Combat Stress," Stars and Stripes (4 Aug 2005) <link>.

Sheldon Rampton, "War is Fun as Hell," AlterNet (2 Aug 2005) <link>.

Richard B. Frank, "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb," Weekly Standard 10.44 (8 Aug 2005) <link>.

Colin Joyce, "Japanese Are Forgetting the Lessons of Hiroshima, Says the Man Who Was Barefoot Gen," Daily Telegraph (4 Aug 2005) <link>.

Stephen Zunes, "Bush Administration Stokes Dangerous Arms Race on Indian Subcontinent," Foreign Policy in Focus (20 Jul 2005) <link>.

Raúl Zibechi, "South America’s New Militarism," Foreign Policy in Focus (18 Jul 2005) <link>.

Daniel Smith, "General Abizaid, I’m Glad You Asked,"  Foreign Policy in Focus (14 Jul 2005) <link>.

Tom Hayden, "A Strategy for Ending the Iraq War," Foreign Policy in Focus (13 Jul 2005) <link>.

Clive Hamilton, "The Left and the Iraq War," Foreign Policy in Focus (13 Jul 2005) <link>.

Mark LeVine, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Moderate Muslim?" [guest editorial], Informed Comment (2 Aug 2005) <link>.

Ruth Price, "Agnes Smedley, an Example to Whose Cause?" Chronicle Review (29 Jul 2005) <link>.

Mark Sappenfield, "Pentagon Stirs Tensions in Foreign Base Shuffle," CS Monitor (1 Aug 2005) <link>.

Michael Herzog, "Encouraging a Tougher PA Response to the Hamas Challenge," Peace Watch #509 (28 Jul 2005) <link>.

Michael Knights, "The Three-Way Game: Iran, Iraq, and the United States," Policy Watch #1015 (21 Jul 2005) <link>.

Carol J. Williams, "Soldiers Get Extra Layer of Defense," LA Times (29 Jul 2005) <link>.

Martin Sieff, "Benchmarks: Hard to Find Good News in Iraq," World Peace Herald (29 Jul 2005) <link>.

David Enders, "'We Regard Falluja As a Large Prison'," Mother Jones (27 Jul 2005) <link>.

Jason DeRose, "U.S. Muslim Scholars Issue Edict against Terrorism," All Things Considered [NPR] (28 Jul 2005) <link>.

Romulo Ludan, "MacArthur and the Pusan Perimeter: Facts That Ollie Left Out," Armchair General (21 Jul 2005) <link>.

Carlo D'Este, "Monty: World War II’s Most Misunderstood General," Armchair General (11 Jul 2005) <link>.

Martin Sieff [UPI], "US Plans Iraq Troop Cuts As Revolt Rages," World Peace Herald (27 Jul 2005) <link>.

Peter Galbraith, "Iraq: Bush's Islamic Republic," NY Review of Books 52.13 (11 Aug 2005) <link>.

Georg Mascolo & Bernhard Zand, "Crumbling Iraq: Is the Country Heading for Civil War?" Der Spiegel (25 Jul 2005) <link>.

David Cortright, "Iraq: The Human Toll," The Nation (1 Aug 2005) <link>.

John Brown, "Defending the Neocon War," TomPaine.com (26 Jul 2005) <link>.

Nathaniel R. Helms, "Guarding the Coast from Terror Threat" [pt. 1 in a series], Defense Watch (6 Jun 2005) <link>, "A Very Thin Shield for ‘Northern Front’" [pt. 2], Defense Watch (17 Jun 2005) <link>, "Coast Guard Scramble over Deepwater Snag" [pt. 3], Defense Watch (20 Jun 2005) <link>, "USCG Deepwater Plan Runs Hard Aground" [pt. 4], Defense Watch (25 Jul 2005) <link>.

Gary Shteyngart, 'War Reporting for Cowards': Scoop," NY Times (24 Jul 2005) <link>.

James Wolcott, "To Live and Die in Iraq," Vanity Fair (14 Jul 2005) <link>.

Gail Vida Hamburg, "Financial Cost of Iraq War," Intervention Magazine (20 Jul 2005) <link>.

Eric Schmitt, "Ability of Iraqis to Fight Rebels Is Weak, U.S. Says," NY Times (21 Jul 2005) <link>.

James B. Rule, "'Above All, Do No Harm': The War in Iraq and Dissent," Dissent (Sum 2005) <link>.

Phillip Carter, "A Guantánamo Exit Strategy," Foreign Policy (Jul 2005) <link>.

Seymour Hersh, "Get Out the Vote: Did Washington Try to Manipulate Iraq's Election?" New Yorker (25 Jul 2005) <link>.

Edward Wong, "Insurgents Active Again on the Streets of Falluja," Internat'l Herald Tribune (16 Jul 2005) <link>.

Corine Hegland, "Counter-Terrorism at the Crossroads," National Journal (15 Jul 2005) <link>.

Norman Solomon, "The Fake Optimism of Washington's Warriors," Antiwar.com (14 Jul 2005) <link>.

Peter Goodman, "Big Shift in China's Oil Policy: With Iraq Deal Dissolved by War, Beijing Looks Elsewhere," Washington Post (13 Jul 2005) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "Making the World Unsafe for Democracy: Boy President in a Failed World?" TomDispatch (10 Jul 2005) <link> & Antiwar.com (11 Jul 2005) <link>.

Fred Kaplan, "The Doctrine Gap: Reality vs. the Pentagon's New Strategy," Slate (6 Jul 2005) <link>.

Scott McConnell, "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism" [interview with Prof. Robert Pape], American Conservative (18 Jul 2005) <link>.

Deborah Caldwell, "The Theater of Sacred Terror" [interview with Prof. Juan Cole], Beliefnet.com (8 Jul 2005) <link>.

Ralph Peters, "The Case for Human Intelligence," Armed Forces Journal (Jul 2005) <link>.

Jacob G. Hornberger, "Gitmo Threatens Us All," Future of Freedom Foundation (Jul 2005) <link>.

Barry R. McCaffrey, "Failure Isn't an Option," Wall Street Journal (2 Jul 2005) <link>.

Trevor Royle, "Bush's War on Two Fronts Takes Its Toll," Sunday Herald (3 Jul 2005) <link>.

Frank Rich, "The Two Wars of the Worlds," NY Times (3 Jul 2005) <link>.

Rick Jervis, "Pace of Troop Deaths Up in Iraq," USA Today (1 Jul 2005) <link>.

Paul Krugman, "America Held Hostage," NY Times (1 Jul 2005) <link>.

Scott McConnell, "How They Get Away With It," American Conservative (4 Jul 2005) <link>.

Richard M. Haass, "Regime Change and Its Limits," Foreign Affairs (Jul/Aug 2005) <link>.

Douglas R. Burgess, "The Dread Pirate Bin Laden," LegalAffairs (Jul/Aug 2005) <link>.

R.D. Hooker, "Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War," Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 4-17 <link>.

Michael H. Hoffman, "Rescuing the Law of War: A Way Forward in an Era of Global Terrorism," Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 18-35 <link>.

Pierre Lessard, "Campaign Design for Winning the War ... and the Peace," Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 36-50 <link>.

Christopher M. Ford, "Speak No Evil: Targeting a Population’s Neutrality to Defeat an Insurgency," Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 51-66 <link>.

William M. Darley, "War Policy, Public Support, and the Media," Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 121-134 <link>.

Michael Lennick, "We Knew That If We Succeeded, We Could at One Blow Destroy a City" [interview with Edward Teller], American Heritage (Jun/Jul 2005) <link>.

Joe O'Donnell, "A Straight Path through Hell" [Nagasaki], American Heritage (Jun/Jul 2005) <link>.

John M. Ryan, "Just One More River to Cross," American Heritage (Jun/Jul 2005) <link>.

Robert Hopkins, "How Would You Like to Be Attached to the Red Army?" American Heritage (Jun/Jul 2005) <link>.

John J. Pullen, "You Will Be Afraid," American Heritage (Jun/Jul 2005) <link>.

Henry Sokolski, "Defusing Iran's Bomb," Policy Review 131 (Jun/Jul 2005) <link>.

J.E. Lendon, "Roman Siege of Jerusalem," Military History Quarterly (Sum 2005) <link>.

Reviews

Emily O. Goldman & Leslie C. Eliason, eds., The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas (Stanford: Stanford U Pr, 2003), Joint Force Quarterly 39  (2005.3) 118-120 <link>.

Victor D. Hanson, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (NY: Anchor, 2001), Joint Force Quarterly 39  (2005.3) 116-118 <link>.

Jeffrey Grey, ed., The Last Word: Essays on Official History in the United States and the British Commonwealth (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), Joint Force Quarterly 39  (2005.3) 115-116 <link>.

Marc Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (Philadelphia: U Penn Pr, 2004), Studies in Intelligence 49.2 (2005) <link>.

Martin Windrow, The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (NY: Da Capo, 2004), Armchair General (14 Sep 2005) <link>.

Quang X. Pham, A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey (NY: Ballantine, 2005), Armchair General (12 Sep 2005) <link>.

Tracy Kidder, My Detachment (NY: Random House, 2005), NY Times (27 Sep 2005) <link>.

Alice Kaplan, The Interpreter (NY: Free Press, 2005) <link>.

E.L. Doctorow, The March (NY: Random House, 2005), NY Times (20 Sep 2005) <link>, The New Yorker (12 Sep 2005) <link>, & NY Times (25 Sep 2005) <link>.

Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground (NY: Random Hosue, 2005), The Nation (26 Sep 2005) <link> & NY Times (23 Sep 2005) <link>.

Randall Lesaffer, Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One (Cambridge: CUP, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.52 <link>.

Christopher S. Mackay, Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History (Cambridge:  CUP, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.45 <link>.

Tim Prtichard, Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War (NY: Random House, 2005), Boston Globe (14 Sep 2005) <link>.

George Packer, The Assassins' Gate (NY: FS&G, 2005), Washington Monthly (Sep 2005) <link>.

Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (NY: Hyperion, 2005), Military History (Aug 2005) <link>.

Peter Tsouras, ed., The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Alternate Scenarios (London: Greenhill, 2004), World War II (Aug 2005) <link>.

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, ed., Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and Joseph Stilwell (College Station: Texas A&M U Pr, 2004), World War II (Aug 2005) <link>.

Tracy Kidder, My Detachment: A Memoir (NY: Random House, 2005), Boston Globe (28 Aug 2005) <link>.

Robert A. Pape, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (NY: Random House, 2005), Commentary (Sep 2005) <link>.

Adam Nicolson, Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar (NY: HarperCollins, 2005), NY Times (4 Sep 2005) <link>.

Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays (NY: Thunder's Mouth, 2004), Claremont Review of Books (Sum 2005) <link>.

Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (NY: HarperCollins, 2006), The Economist (25 Aug 2005) <link>.

Frank L. Holt, Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Berkeley: U California Pr, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.08.35 <link>.

Peter Irons, War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution (NY: Metropolitan Books, 2005), NY Times (21 Aug 2005) <link>.

Angelos Chaniotis, War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.08.20 <link>.

Brian Campbell, Greek and Roman Military Writers: Selected Readings (London/NY: Routledge, 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.08.13 <link>.

Robert Spencer, ed., The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2005), Private Papers (6 Aug 2005) <link>.

Leon Hadar, Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), American Conservative (1 Aug 2005) <link>.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Cambridge: Harvard U Pr, 2005), CS Monitor (2 Aug 2005) <link>.

Priscilla J. McMillan, The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race (NY: Viking, 2005), CS Monitor (2 Aug 2005) <link>.

Hann Krall, The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories, tr. Madeline G. Levine (NY: Other Pr, 2005), Washington Times (31 Jul 2005) <link>.

Richard Holmes, In the Footsteps of Churchill (NY: Basic Books, 2005), Washington Times (31 Jul 2005) <link>.

John Sacret Young, Remains: Non-Viewable (NY: FS&G, 2005), Weekend Edition [NPR] (31 Jul 2005) <link>.

H.R. Goette & T.M. Weber, Marathon: Siedlungskammer und Schlachtfeld—Sommerfrische und Olympische Wettkampfstätte (Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.80 <link>.

Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (NY: Times Books, 2005) & David L. Phillips, Losing Iraq: Inside the Post-War Reconstruction Fiasco (Boulder, CO: Westview Pr, 2005), The Nation (1 Aug 2005) <link>.

Jennet Conant, 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005) & Jon Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community (Norman: U Oklahoma Pr, 2004), American Scientist (Jul/Aug 2005) <link>.

Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History (London: Macmillan [to appear in US with OUP, Oct 2005], 2005 & Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization Oxford: OUP, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.69 <link>.

Hans van Wees, Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities (London: Duckworth, 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.66 <link>.

Dexter Hoyos, Hannibal's Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 B.C. (Oxford:  OUP, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.65 <link>.

Daniel Ogden, Aristomenes of Messene: Legends of Sparta's Nemesis (Swansea: Classical Pr of Wales, 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.46 <link>.

Jeffrey Record, Dark Victory: America's Second War Against Iraq (Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst Pr, 2004), Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 7.4 (Sum 2005) <link>.

Stephen M. Duncan, A War of A Different Kind: Military Force and America’s Search for Homeland Security (Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst Pr, 2004), Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 7.4 (Sum 2005) <link>.

Scott Fitzsimmons, "Toward a Comprehensive Theory of War Making in the Developing World," Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 7.4 (Sum 2005) <link> [on Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 (Lincoln: U Nebraska Pr, 2002), Miguel A. Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and the Nation State in Latin America (University Park: Penn State U Pr, 2002), & Herbert M. Howe, Ambiguous Order: Military Forces in African States (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2001)].

Bill Bentley, Professional Ideology and the Profession of Arms in Canada (Toronto, ON: Canadian Inst of Strategic Studies, 2005), Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 7.4 (Sum 2005) <link>.

John Glusman, Conduct under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 (NY: Viking, 2005), LA Times (10 Jul 2005) <link>.

Sean Naylor, Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda (NY: Berkley Books, 2005), Washington Monthly (Jul/Aug 2005) <link>.

David L. Phillips, Losing Iraq: Inside the Post-War Reconstruction Fiasco (Boulder, CO: Westview Pr, 2005) NY Times (10 Jul 2005) <link>.

Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (NY: Times Books, 2005), Foreign Affairs (Jul/Aug 2005) <link> & NY Times (10 Jul 2005) <link>.

Matthew Trundle, Greek Mercenaries from the Late Archaic Period to Alexander (London/NY:  Routledge, 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.04 <link>.

David Rieff, At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005) & Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (NY: OUP, 2005), NYRB 52.12 (14 Jul 2005) <link>.

Noah Isenberg, "Dresden Mon Amour: Realism or Revisionism? Germans Revisit the War," Bookforum (Sum 2005) <link> [on Hans Erich Nossack, The End: Hamburg 1943 (Chicago: U Chicago Pr, 2004), W.G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction (NY: Random House, 2003), Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940-1945 (Munich: Propyläen, 2002), Jochen & Harf Zimmerman, Dresden Vaterstadt (Berlin: Nicholaische Verlagsbuchhd, 2005), Oliver Hirschbiegel, dir., Downfall (2004)].

Lewis Sorley, ed., Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972 (Lubbock: Texas Tech U Pr, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 141-143 <link>.

Anon., Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 143-146 <link>.

Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (NY: Norton, 2004),  Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 146-148 <link>.

David Fromkin, Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? (NY: Knopf, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 148-149 <link>.

Colin S. Gray, The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order (Lexington: U Kentucky Pr, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 149-152 <link>.

Nathan A. Busch, No End in Sight: The Continuing Menace of Nuclear Proliferation (Lexington: U Kentucky Pr, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 152-153 <link>.

Frederick P. Hitz, The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage (NY: Knopf, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 153-155 <link>.

Cindy Williams, ed., Filling the Ranks: Transforming the U.S. Military Personnel System (Cambridge: MIT Pr, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 155-156 <link>.

Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Greatest President as Commander in Chief (NY: Random House, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 156-158 <link>.

Allan Peskin, Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms (Kent, OH: Kent State U Pr, 2003), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 158-160 <link>.

Paul D. Casdorph, Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee’s Hesitant Commander (Lexington: U Kentucky Pr, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 160-162 <link>.

Robert Pois & Philip Langer, Command Failure in War: Psychology and Leadership (Bloomington: Indiana U Pr, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 162-163 <link>.

Andrew Exum, This Man’s Army: A Soldier’s Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism (NY: Gotham Books, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 163-165 <link>.

Hew Strachan, The First World War (NY: Penguin, 2003), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 165-166 <link>.

Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Pr, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 166-168 <link>.

John Prados & Margaret Pratt Porter, eds., Inside the Pentagon Papers (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 168-170 <link>.

Daniel M. Epstein, Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington (NY: Ballantine, 2004), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 170-171 <link>.

Bill Katovsky & Timothy Carlson, Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq—An Oral History (Guilford, CT: Lyons Pr, 2003), Parameters 35.2 (Sum 2005) 172-173 <link>.

N.A.M. Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 (NY: Norton, 2005), Atlantic Monthly (12 Apr 2005) <link> & Policy Review 131 (Jun/Jul 2005) <link>.

John Keegan, Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to al-Qaeda (New York: Knopf, 2003), Policy Review 125 (Jun/Jul 2004) <link>, Studies in Intelligence 48.2 (2004) <link>, & Parameters 35.1 (Spr 2005) 129-132 <link>.