Archives: Jul-Aug-Sep 2006
 
Articles

Mitch Potter, "The Story of C Company," Toronto Star (30 Sep 2006) <link>.

Walter Giersbach, "Governor Kieft's Personal War," MilitaryHistoryOnline.com (26 Aug 2006) <link>.

David C. Hendrickson & Robert W. Tucker, "A Test of Power," The National Interest (1 Sep 2006) <link>.

Nikolas Gvosdev & Ray Takeyh, "The Myths and Realities of Iraq," Boston Globe (29 Sep 2006) <link>.

Peter Laufer, "The Growing Iraq Resistance Movement in the U.S. Military," AlterNet (30 Sep 2006) <link>.

Hannah Fischer, "United States Military Casualty Statistics: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom," CRS Report for Congress [Order Code RS22452] (8 Jun 2006) <link>.

Suzanne Goldenberg, "Over 800 Attacks Every Week in Iraq," The Guardian (30 Sep 2006) <link>.

Jacob G. Hornberger, "Decimating the Constitution with Military Tribunals," Future of Freedom Foundation (27 Sep 2006) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "Iraq at the Gates of Hell: George Bush's Iraq in 21 Questions," TomDispatch.com (28 Sep 2006) <link>, also Antiwar.com (29 Sep 2006) <link>.

Eric Powell, "Celebrating Genghis Khan's Big Year," Archaeology (29 Sep 2006) <link>.

John J. Miller, "Sounding Taps: Why Military History Is Being Retired," Nat'l Review (25 Sep 2006) <link>.

Fred Halliday, "The Left and the Jihad," openDemocracy (8 Sep 2006) <link>.

Carlin Romano, "Is the Crematorium Half-Full or Half-Empty?," Chronicle of Higher Education (22 Sep 2006) <link>.

Joshua Holland, "How White House Warmongers Learned to Love Empire," AlterNet (27 Sep 2006) <link>.

David Lindorff, "War Signals," The Nation (21 Sep 2006) <link>.

Peter Spiegel, "Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short," LA Times (25 Sep 2006) <link>.

Amy Goodman, "Juan Cole on Civil War in Iraq, the Hyping of WMD Intel on Iran, and How The Lebanon War Has Weakened Israel," Democracy Now! (25 Sep 2006) <link>.

Sarah Baxter, "US Army’s Kill-Kill Ethos under Fire," [London] Times Online (24 Sep 2006) <link>.

David Espo, "Ex-military Officers Criticize Rumsfeld," Yahoo! News [AP] (25 Sep 2006) <link>.

Antonio Castaneda, "Iraqi Soldiers Hinder U.S. Efforts," Yahoo! News [AP] (24 Sep 2006) <link>.

Karen DeYoung, "Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Hurting U.S. Terror Fight," Washington Post (24 Sep 2006) <link>.

Bernhard Zand, "City of Death: The Battle for Baghdad," Spiegel Online (22 Sep 2006) <link>.

Mitch Potter, "New Taliban Not the Foe It Used to Be," Toronto Star (23 Sep 2006) <link>.

"[Barry] Strauss Offers Fresh Look at 'Trojan War,'" NPR: Talk of the Nation (21 Sep 2006) <link>.

Peter Grier, "Not Coming Soon: US Troop Cuts in Iraq," CS Monitor (22 Sep 2006) <link>.

Richard Norton-Taylor, "Officers Warn about Plight of British Troops," Guardian Unlimited (23 Sep 2006) <link>.

Winslow T. Wheeler, "The Mess in the Defense Budget," MotherJones.com (13 Sep 2006) <link>, also Center for Defense Information (15 Sep 2006) <link>.

Pierre Sprey & James Stevenson, "The F-22: Not What We Were Hoping For," Jane's Defence Weekly (20 Sep 2006) 23 <link>.

Paul Starobin, "The Realists," National Journal (15 Sep 2006) <link>.

Robert Fisk, "The American Military's Cult of Cruelty," CounterPunch (16/17 Sep 2006) <link>.

Robert Higgs, "War Is Horrible, but . . .," LewRockwell.com (16 Sep 2006) <link>.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Lessons of Suez," Boston Globe (17 Sep 2006) <link>.

Samuel H. Preston & Emily Buzzell, "Service in Iraq: Just How Risky?" Washington Post (26 Aug 2006) <link>.

Nick Turse, "The Pentagon's 12-Step Program to Create a Military of Misfits," TomDispatch.com (14 Sep 2006) <link>, also AlterNet.com (16 Sep 2006) <link>.

Sami Moubayed, "Syria, US Shrouded in the Fog of War," Asia Times (15 Sep 2006) <link>.

David Selbourne, "Can the West Defeat the Islamist Threat? Here Are Ten Reasons Why Not," {London] Times Online (9 Sep 2006) <link>.

Joseph L. Galloway, "Top Military Leaders Insist New U.S. Strategy Is Desperately Needed in Iraq," McClatchy Newspapers (6 Sep 2006) <link>.

Geov Parrish, "History Ignored," Working For Change.com (12 Sep 2006) <link>.

Patrik Jonsson, "Newest Army Recruits: The Over-35 Crowd," CS Monitor (6 Sep 2006) <link>.

Ian Baruma, "War and Remembrance," New Yorker (18 Sep 2006) <link>.

"Joachim Fest" [obit.], [London] Times Online (13 Sep 2006) <link>.

Tony Corn, "Clausewitz in Wonderland," Policy Review (Sep 2006) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "The Real Link Between 9/11 and Iraq (Finally) Revealed," Tom Dispatch.com (12 Sep 2006) <link>, also Antiwar.com (13 Sep 2006) <link>.

Tom Bowman, "Front-Line Baghdad: Stryker Brigade," All Things Considered [NPR] (12 Sep 2006) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Situation Called Dire in West Iraq," Washington Post (11 Sep 2006) <link>.

Martin Amis, "The Age of Horrorism," Guardian Unlimited (10 Sep 2006), Pt 1 <link>, Pt 2 <link>, Pt 3 <link>.

Declan Walsh, "The Hunt" [for bin Laden], The Guardian (11 Sep 2006) <link>.

Robert Dreyfuss, "Iraq's Reality Sinks In," TomPaine.com (8 Sep 2006) <link>.

Christopher Hayes, "The Good War on Terror: How the Greatest Generation Helped Pave the Road to Baghdad," In These Times (8 Sep 2006) <link>.

"Wars 'Robbing Youths of School,'" BBC News (12 Sep 2006) <link>.

Stephen Schwartz, "1936 and All That: Why the Spanish Civil War Is Like Iraq, and Vice Versa," Weekly Standard 11.48 (11 Sep 2006) <link>.

Thomas Gale Moore, "What Is Victory?" Antiwar.com (7 Sep 2006) <link>.

Martin Sieff, "Eye on Iraq: Adrift in a Complex War," UPI (6 Sep 2006) <link>.

Max Rodenbeck, "War within War," NY Review of Books 53.14 (21 Sep 2006) <link>.

Gabriel Kolko, "The Great Equalizer: Lessons from Iraq and Lebanon," LewRockwell.com (1 Sep 2006) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "No Win," Boston Globe (27 Aug 2006) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "The Islamic Way of War," American Conservative (11 Sep 2006) <link>.

Norman Podhoretz, "Is the Bush Doctrine Dead?" Commentary (Sep 2006) <link>.

Anon. [Marine in Iraq], "The Arab 'Military Culture,'" Soldiers for the Truth (4 Aug 2006) <link>.

R.W. Zimmerman, "Middle East Wildfires Underscore That US Military Must Boost Its Manpower," DefenseWatch (20 Aug 2006) <link>.

"Humbling of the Supertroops Shatters Israeli Army Morale," [London] Sunday Times (27 Aug 2006) <link>.

Arthur Bright, "Study Calls Iran 'Biggest Beneficiary' of US War on Terror," CS Monitor (25 Aug 2006) <link>.

Michael Felberbaum, "Army Immerses Soldiers in Weaponry," Guardian Unlimited (26 Aug 2006) <link>.

Amir Taheri, Hezbollah Didn't Win," Wall Street Journal (25 Aug 2006) <link>.

Ken Silverstein, "Six Questions for Michael Scheuer on National Security" [interview], Harper's (23 Aug 2006) <link>.

Brad Knickerbocker, "US Marine Call-up Signals a Long War," CS Monitor (24 Aug 2006) <link>.

Michael Roston, "Group: Bush Can Reinstate the Draft, or Lose the Iraq War," Raw Story (23 Aug 2006) <link>.

Norman Birnbaum, "The Strange Silence of Günter Grass," The Nation (18 Aug 2006) <link>.

Michael Schwartz & Tom Engelhardt, "7 Facts Making Sense of Our Iraqi Disaster," TomDispatch.com (20 Aug 2006) <link>, also Antiwar.com (22 Aug 2006) <link>.

Ralph Peters, "Our Strategic Intelligence Problem," Military Review (Jul/Aug 2006) 112-114 <link>.

Thomas X. Hammes, "Countering Evolved Insurgency Networks," Military Review (Jul/Aug 2006) 18-26 <link>.

Jim Mullins, "Bush Should Listen to Elders Instead of Neocons," [S. Florida] Sun-Sentinel.com (18 Aug 2006) <link>.

Tom Engelhardt, "Collateral Damage," Le Monde diplomatique (Aug 2006) <link>.

Seymour M. Hersh, "Watching Lebanon: Washington’s Interests in Israel’s War," New Yorker (21 Aug 2006) <link>.

Rick Gell, "Bush's (Possible) Five-Point Iraq Exit Strategy," AlterNet (17 Aug 2006) <link>.

Yitzhak Laor, "You Are Terrorists, We Are Virtuous," London Review of Books 28.16 (17 Aug 2006) <link>.

Anthony H. Cordesman, "Preliminary 'Lessons' of the Israeli-Hezbollah War," Center for Strategic and Internat'l Studies (17 Aug 2006) <link>.

Dan Rabinowitz, "The Pitfalls of Machismo," Haaretz (16 Aug 2006) <link>.

"Heritage in the the Landscape of War"  [interviews with Eric Cline & Sandra Scham], Archaeology (16 Aug 2006) <link>.

Jim Lobe, "Veteran Policy-Makers Fear Disaster in U.S. Course," Inter Press Service (10 Aug 2006) <link>, also AlterNet (15 Aug 2006) <link>.

Seymour M. Hersh, "Watching Lebanon," New Yorker (21 Aug 2006) <link>.

David Gardner, "Misplaying the Islamic Power Game," Financial Times (10 Aug 2006) <link>.

Gordon Cucullu, "'The Rest' Test for the West," TCS Daily (8 Aug 2006) <link>.

Jimmy Breslin, "In Case We All Forgot, Americans Are Still Dying in Iraq," Newsday (6 Aug 2006) <link>, also Truthout (6 Aug 2006) <link>, & AlterNet (11 Aug 2006) <link>.

Robert Parry, "Bush Wants Wider War," Consortiumnews.com (3 Aug 2006) <link>, also AlterNet (7 Aug 2006) <link>.

Martin Smith, "Military Training and Atrocities," CounterPunch (5/6 Aug 2006) <link>.

Tom Lasseter, "Iraqi Civil War Has Already Begun, U.S. Troops Say," McClatchy Newspapers (4 Aug 2006) <link>.

John V. Denson, "The Hiroshima Myth," LewRockwell.com (2 Aug 2006) <link>.

Nick Turse & Deborah Nelson, "Vietnam: The War Crimes Files," LA Times (6 Aug 2006) <link>.

Jim Quilty, "Baalbek: Not Exactly the Image of 'Terror Central,'" Daily Star (4 Aug 2006) <link>.

Rasha Salti, "Siege Notes," London Review of Books 28.15 (3 Aug 2006) <link>.

Sabrina Tavernise, "Civilians Lose As Fighters Slip into Fog of War," NY Times (3 Aug 2006) <link>.

Dan Williams, "Analysis'Air Power' Assumptions Shot Down over Lebanon," AlertNet [Reuters] (2 Aug 2006) <link>.

[AP], General: Guard Units Not Combat Ready, USA Today (1 Aug 2006) <link>.

Dan Eggen, "9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon," Washington Post (2 Aug 2006) <link>, also Truthout (2 Aug 2006) <link>.

Chris Hedges, "Mutually Assured Destruction in the Middle East," Truthdig (14 Jul 2006) <link>.

Robert Dreyfuss, "Next We Take Tehran," MotherJones.com (Jul/Aug 2006) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "The Moral Culpability for Qana," Antiwar.com (1 Aug 2006) <link>.

George P. Schulz, "Sustaining Our Resolve," Policy Review 138 (Aug/Sep 2006) <link>.

David R. Henderson, "Remembering Hiroshima," Antiwar.com (31 Jul 2006) <link>.

Norman Berdichevsky, "What the Good Soldier Schweik Knew Then," New English Review (Jul 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "What Is Hizbullah?" Informed Comment (31 Jul 2006) <link>.

Sherry Ricchiardi, "The Forgotten War," American Journalism Review (Aug/Sep 2006) <link>.

Elias Khoury, "Do I See or Do I Remember?" London Rev of Books 28.15 (3 Aug 2006) <link>.

John Noonan, "The Rise of the Service Gap," National Review (28 Jul 2006) <link>.

Rashid I. Khalidi, "Anger in the Arab World," The Nation (14 Aug 2006) <link>.

Tony Karon, "How the Lebanon Crisis Complicates U.S. Prospects in Iraq," Time (27 Jul 2006) <link>.

James Bamford, "Iran: The Next War," Rolling Stone (10 Aug 2006) <link>.

Ken Silverstein, "Could U.S. Troops End Up in Lebanon?" Harper's (26 Jul 2006) <link>.

Philip H. Gordon, "Air Power Won't Do It," Washington Post (25 Jul 2006) <link>.

Matthew Rothschild, "Homeland Security Spies on Student Anti-War Groups," The Progressive (18 Jul 2006) <link>.

Bruce Thornton, "The Impossible Peace," Private Papers (25 Jul 2006) <link>.

Charles A. Kupchan & Ray Takeyh, "Middle East: Reaping What Bush Sowed," Internat'l Herald Tribune (19 Jul 2006) <link> & Spiegel Online (20 Jul 2006) <link>.

Daniel Douek, "Israel's Air and Artillery War against Hezbollah," ZNet (23 Jul 2006) <link>.

Tom Regan, "Fears of War in Somalia Grow," CS Monitor (21 Jul 2006) <link>.

Matthew Kalman, "Israel Set War Plan More Than a Year Ago," SF Chronicle (21 Jul 2006) <link>.

Deborah Campbell, "What to Read While the Cradle Burns," The Tyee (21 Jul 2006) <link> & AlterNet (22 Jul 2006) <link>.

David S. Cloud & Helene Cooper, "U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis," NY Times (22 Jul 2006) <link>.

Fouad Ajami, "Hostage to Hezbollah," WS Journal (21 Jul 2006) <link>

Bob Murphy, "In the Mind of a War Hawk [Victor Hanson]," LewRockwell.com (17 Jul 2006) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "No. This Is Not 'Our War,'" Antiwar.com (21 Jul 2006) <link>.

Timothy Garton Ash, "Lebanon, North Korea, Russia ... Here Is the World's New Multipolar Disorder," The Guardian (20 Jul 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Israel's Maximal Option," Salon (19 Jul 2006) <link>.

Matthias Gebauer, "Fatigue in Israel: Bunker Life and Rocket Attacks," Spiegel Online (19 Jul 2006) <link>.

Paul Craig Roberts, "We're Being Set Up for Wider War in the Middle East," Antiwar.com (17 Jul 2006) <link>.

Justin Logan & Christopher Preble, "Are Failed States a Threat to America? The Bush Administration’s Nation-Building Efforts Are a Big Mistake," Reason (Jul 2006) <link>.

Leslie Wayne, "Pentagon Struggles with Cost Overruns and Delays," NY Times (11 Jul 2006) <link>, also Truthout (11 Jul 2006) <link>.

Dan Murphy, "Revenge Cycle Fragments Iraqi Capital," CS Monitor (12 Jul 2006) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "What's an Iraqi Life Worth?" Washington Post (9 Jul 2006) <link>.

Tom Vanden Brook, "U.S. Elite Forces Face Shortfall," USA Today (2 Jul 2006) <link>.

Sarah Childress, "Marching Forward," Newsweek (7 Jul 2006) <link>.

Eric Margolis, "The War in Afghanistan Is Only the Beginning," LewRockwell.com (6 Jul 2006) <link>.

Mark Sappenfield, "What US Wants in Its Troops: Cultural Savvy," CS Monitor (5 Jul 2006) <link>.

Seymour M. Hersh, "Last Stand," New Yorker (10 Jul 2006) <link>.

"Somme Horror Marked 90 Years On," BBC News (1 Jul 2006) <link>.

Robert Dreyfuss, "Next We Take Tehran," MotherJones.com (Jul/Aug 2006) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "Time for an 'Agonizing Reappraisal,'" American Conservative (3 Jul 2006) <link>.

Joe W. Guthrie, "Nation Breaking," American Conservative (3 Jul 2006) <link>.

Larry Diamond, James Dobbins, Chaim Kaufmann, Leslie H. Gelb, & Stephen Biddle, "What to Do in Iraq: A Roundtable," Foreign Affairs (Jul/Aug 2006) <link>.

Stephen F. Cohen, "The New American Cold War," The Nation (10 Jul 2006) <link>.

Bruce P. Jackson, "The “Soft War” for Europe’s East," Policy Review 137 (Jun/Jul 2006) <link>.

Edward M. Coffman, "Peyton C. March: Greatest Unsung American General of World War I," MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Sum 2006) <link>.

Michael D. Hull, "Peter Francisco: American Revolutionary War Hero," Military History (Jul/Aug 2006) <link>.

Jeffry D. Wert, "America's Civil War: 17th Maine Infantry in Gettysburg," Civil War Times (Jul 2006) <link>.

Jonathan W. Jordan, "Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944," World War II (Jul/Aug 2006) <link>.

Ira M. Rutkow, "America's Civil War: Hospitals, Surgery, and Medical Care," America's Civil War (Jul 2006) <link>.

Mary Anne Weaver, "The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," Atlantic Online (Jul/Aug 2006) <link>.


Reviews

Rod Kedward, France and the French: A Modern History (NY: Overlook, 2006), review by Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly (Sum 2006) <link>.

Winston Groom, Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans (NY: Knopf, 2006), review by Max Byrd, Wilson Quarterly (Sum 2006) <link>.

Richard L. DiNardo, Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2005), review by Michael Anklin, H-Net Reviews (Jul 2006) <link>.

Stephen Broadberry & Mark Harrison, edd., The Economics of World War I (Cambridge: Cambridge U Pr, 2005), review by Nathan N. Orgill, H-Net Reviews (Jul 2006) <link>.

Gerald L. Earley, I Belonged to the 116th: A Narrative of the 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2004), review by Timothy M. Jenness, H-Net Reviews (Jul 2006) <link>.

Wesley Adamczyk, When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption (Chicago: U Chicago Pr, 2004), review by Douglas Carl Peifer, H-Net Reviews (Jun 2006) <link>.

Andrew Riggsby, Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words (Austin:  U Texas Pr, 2006), review by Aislinn Melchior, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.09.32 <link>.

Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Pr, 2006), review by John Adamson, [London] Times Online (3 Sep 2006) <link>.

Kenneth Anderson, After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads (London: Profile, 2006), review by Kenneth Anderson, [London] Times Online (20 Sep 2006) <link>.

Konstantin Nossov, Indian Castles 12061526: The Rise and Fall of the Delhi Sultanate (Oxford: Osprey, 2006), review by Muhammed Hassanali, De Re Militari (Sep 2006) <link>.

Günter Grass, Beim Häuten der Zwiebel [Peeling the Onion] (Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2006), review [in English] by Daniel Johnson, Telegraph (24 Sep 2006) <link>.

Patricia Foulkrod, dir., The Ground Truth [opened 15 Sep 2006], reviews by Don Hazen, AlterNet (18 Sep 2006) <link> & Stephen Holden, NY Times (15 Sep 2006) <link>.

Emily Greenwood, Thucydides and the Shaping of History (London:  Duckworth, 2006), review by Carolyn Dewald, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.09.15 <link>.

Alan Bance, Blitzkrieg: In Their Own Words: First-Hand Accounts from German Soldiers, 1939-1940 (Osceola, WI: Zenith Pr, 2005), review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (15 Sep 2006) <link>.

Michael Blake, Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland, 2006), review by Michael Harris, LA Times (9 Sep 2006) <link>.

Christopher Gravett, The Normans: Warrior Knights and their Castles (Oxford: Osprey, 2006), review by J.H. Moreno, Armchair General (8 Sep 2006) <link>.

Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain (NY: Basic Books, 2006), review by Ed Voves, Phila Inquirer (10 Sep 2006) <link>.

Niall Christie & Maya Yazigi, Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2006), review by Brian G H Ditcham, De Re Militari (Sep 2006) <link>.

Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (NYL Knopf, 2006), review by Erik Spanberg, CS Monitor (5 Sep 2006) <link>.

Nigel Thomas & Darko Pavlovic, The Yugoslav Wars (1): Slovenia & Croatia 1991-95 (Oxford: Osprey, 2006), review by Duncan Rice, Armchair General (27 Aug 2006) <link>.

Sheila Dillon & Katherine E. Welch, Representations of War in Ancient Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge U Pr, 2006), review by Josh Levithan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.08.55 <link>.

G.J. Meyer, A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (NY: Delacorte, 2006), review by Robert M. Smalley, Washington Times (13 Aug 2006) <link>.

Larry Alexander, Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers (NY: Penguin, 2005), review by Jeff Cherpeski, Armchair General (23 Aug 2006) <link>.

Michael Walsh, Brothers in War: One Family’s Ultimate Great War Sacrifice (NY: Ebury, 2006), review by Max Hastings, [London] Times Online (30 Jul 2006) <link>.

Christopher Tyerman, God's War: A New History of the Crusades (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Pr, 2006), review by  Felipe Fernández-Armesto, [London] Times Online (19 Aug 2006) <link>.

Robert M. Citino, The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2005), review by Scott A. Porter, Military Review (Jul/Aug 2006) 119 <link>.

James M. Minnich, The North Korean People's Army: Orgins and Current Tactics (Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst Pr, 2005), review by Daniel M. Frickenschmidt, Military Review (Jul/Aug 2006) 118-119 <link>.

Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground (NY: Random House, 2005), review by Andrew M. Roe, Military Review (Jul/Aug 2006) 118 <link>.

John R. Ballard, Fighting for Fallujah: A New Dawn for Iraq (Westpost, CT: Praeger, 2006), review by Dennis S. Buerket, Military Review (Jul/Aug 2006) 115-116 <link>.

Sean Naylor, Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda (NY: Berkley, 2005), review by Daniel Hines, Armchair General (2 Aug 2006) <link>.

Alan & Irene Taylor, The War Diaries: An Anthology of Daily Wartime Diary Entries throughout History (NY: Canongate, 2005) , review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (21 Jul 2006) <link>.

Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française, trans. Sandra Smith (NY: Knopf, 2006), review by Ned Warwick, Phila Inquirer (17 Aug 2006) <link>.

Mary R. Habeck, Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2006), review by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Weekly Standard (3 Aug 2006) <link>.

Oliver Stone, dir., World Trade Center, reviews by Ruth Rosen, TomDispatch.com (16 Aug 2006) <link>, also Antiwar.com (17 Aug 2006) <link>, & David Denby, New Yorker (21 Aug 2006) <link>.

David Mattingly, An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 (NY: Allen Lane, 2006), review by Peter Jones, Literary Review (Jul 2006) <link>.

Howard Bahr, The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War (NY: Henry Holt, 2006), review by Jeffrey Lent, Washington Post (13 Aug 2006) <link>.

Ralf Scharf, Der Dux Mogontiacensis und die Notitia Dignitatum: Eine Studie zur spätantiken Grenzverteidigung (Berlin/NY: de Gruyter, 2005), review by Timo Stickler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.08.25 <link>.

Alistair Cooke, The American Home Front: 1941-1942 (NY: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2006), review by Benjamin Markovits, [London] Times Online (9 Aug 2006) <link>.

Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006), review by Randy Dotinga, CS Monitor (1 Aug 2006) <link>, also Powells.com (7 Aug 2006) <link>.

Hugh Kennedy, ed., Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria: From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period (Leiden: Brill, 2006), review by Timothy May, De Re Militari (Aug 2006) <link>.

Enrica Guerra, Soggetti a “ribalda fortuna”: Gli uomini dello stato estense nelle guerre dell’Italia quattrocentesca (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2005), review by Sergio Mantovani, De Re Militari (Aug 2006) <link>.

Chris Brown, William Wallace: The True Story of Braveheart (The Mill, Brimscombe Port: Stroud, 2005), review by Sergio Mantovani, De Re Militari (Aug 2006) <link>.

Barton C. Hacker, World Military History Annotated Bibliography: Premodern and Nonwestern Military Institutions (Works Published before 1967) (Leiden: Brill, 2004), review by Muhammed Hassanali, De Re Militari (Aug 2006) <link>.

Journal of the Armour Research Society, 1 (2005), review by Steven A. Walton, De Re Militari (Jul 2006) <link>.

Robert Douglas Smith & Kelly DeVries, The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2005), review by Peter Burkholder, De Re Militari (Jul 2006) <link>.

Joseph Margulies, Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006), review by Jonathan Mahler, NY Times (30 Jul 2006) <link>.

Robert M. Citino, Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940 (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2002), review by Robert L. Bateman, H-Net Reviews (May 2006) <link>.

Jerome A. Greene, Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (Norman: U Okla Pr, 2006), review by Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic (25 Jul 2006) [at Powells.com] <link>.

Michela Wrong, I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation (NY: HarperPerennial, 2005), Dominique Jacquin-Berdal & Martin Plaut, edd., Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at War (Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Pr, 2006), Robert Rotberg, ed., Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa (Washington: Brookings Inst Pr, 2005), reviews by Jeremy Harding, London Review of Books 28.14 (20 Jul 2006) <link>.

Hunt Tooley, The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War (Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003), review by Maartje Abbenhuis, H-Net Reviews (May 2006) <link>.

Peter Beinart, The Good Fight: Why Liberalsand Only LiberalsCan Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (NY: HarperCollins, 2006), review by Kevin Mattson, Boston Review (Jul/Aug 2006) <link>.

Nancy Sherman, Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind (Oxford: OUP, 2005), review by Liz Gloyn, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.07.68 <link>.

Fouad Ajami, The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq (NY: Free Press, 2006), reviews by Noah Feldman, NY Times (30 Jul 2006) <link>, R. Stephen Humphreys, Washington Post (6 Aug 2006) <link>, & Victor D. Hanson, Commentary (Sep 2006) 67-69 <link>.

Michael R. Gordon & Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (NY: Pantheon, 2006), David L. Phillips, Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco (NY: Perseus, 2006 [orig. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2005]), Fouad Ajami, The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq (NY: Free Press, 2006), & Michael Goldfarb, Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq (NY: Carroll & Graf, 2005; rpt. 2006), reviews by Peter W. Galbraith, NY Review of Books 53.13 (10 Aug 2006) <link>.

Marcus Bull & Norman Housley, edd., The Experience of Crusading, vol. 1: Western Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge U Pr, 2003), review by Lee P. Ruddin, De Re Militari (Jul 2006) <link>.

Judith Bronstein, The Hospitallers and the Holy Land: Financing the Latin East, 1187-1274 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), review by Zsolt Hunyadi, De Re Militari (Jul 2006) <link>.

A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the World War II Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan (NY: Walker, 2006), review by Christopher Hitchens, Weekly Standard 11.43 (31 Jul 2006) <link>.

Gregor Dallas, 1945: The War That Never Ended (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2005) & Charles Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (Cambridge: Harvard U Pr, 2006), reviews by Robert Skidelsky, NY Review of Books 53.12 (13 Jul 2006) <link>.

Burkhard Meissner, Oliver Schmitt, & Michael Sommer, Krieg, Gesellschaft, Institutionen: Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden Kriegsgeschichte (Berlin: Akad Verl, 2005), review by Everett L. Wheeler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.07.55 <link>.

Steven H. Miles, Oath Betrayed Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror (NY: Random House, 2006), review by Rafael Campo, LA Times (23 Jul 2006) <link>.

Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2006), review by Carlin Romano, Phila Inquirer (23 Jul 2006) <link>.

Neil Hanson, Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War (NY: Knopf, 2006), review by Christopher Capozzola, CS Monitor (18 Jul 2006) <link>.

Christopher Duffy, Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2006), review by George Kerevan, The Scotsman (1 Jul 2006) <link>.

Christopher Layne, The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present (Ithaca: Cornell U Pr, 2006), review by Doug Bandow, Antiwar.com (14 Jul 2006) <link>.

Peter W. Galbraith, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006), reviews by Steve Weinberg, Boston Globe (13 Jul 2006) <link>, Noah Feldman, NY Times (30 Jul 2006) <link>, & David Ignatius, Washington Post (6 Aug 2006) <link>.

Victor D. Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (NY: Random House, 2005), review by E. Christian Kopff,  Claremont Review of Books (Sum 2006) <link>.

Hugh Pope, Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World (NY: Overlook Pr, 2005), review by John S. Gardner, Claremont Review of Books (Sum 2006) <link>.

Richard S. Lowry, Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq (NY: Berkley, 2006), review by Rick Baillergeon, Armchair General (11 Jul 2006) <link>.

Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006), reviews by Erik Spanberg, CS Monitor (11 Jul 2006) <link>, Bryan Burrough, NY Times (23 Jul 2006) <link>, Doug Bandow, Antiwar.com (4 Aug 2006) <link>, & Peter Dale Scott, Consortiumnews.com (27 Jul 2006) <link>.

Alan M. Dershowitz, Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (NY: Norton, 2006), review by Andrew C. McCarthy, Commentary (Jul/Aug 2006) 88-91 <link>.

Christopher Leslie Brown & Philip D. Morgan, Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2006), review by Benjamin Garstad, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.07.28 <link>.

Ralph Peters, Never Quit the Fight (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2006), review by Jerry D. Morelock, Armchair General (7 Jul 2006) <link>.

Fred Anderson & Andrew Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (NY: Viking, 2005), review by Matthew Pinsker, Common-place 6.4 (Jul 2006) <link>.

Tom Holland, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (NY: Doubleday, 2006), review by David Potter, Archaeology 59.4 (Jul/Aug 2006) <link>.