Articles

George Packer, "Planning for Defeat: How Should We Withdraw from Iraq?" New Yorker (17 Sep 2007) <link>.

Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison & Tom Vanden Brook, "Pentagon Balked at Pleas for Safer Vehicles," USA Today (n.d.) <link>.

Robert Scheer, "Checkbook Imperialism:  The Blackwater Fiasco," Truthdig (18 Sep 2007) <link>, rpt. AlterNet (19 Sep 2007) <link>.

Richard Lardner, "180,000 private contractors flood Iraq," Yahoo! News (19 Sep 2007) <link>.

Patrick Cockburn, "An Assassination That Blows Apart Bush's Hopes of Pacifying Iraq," Belfast Telegraph (14 Sep 2007) <link>.

Bruce Fein, "Force of Gravity," Washington Times (11 Sep 2007) <link>.

Patrick J. Buchanan, "Stopping the Next War," Antiwar.com (14 Sep 2007) <link>.

Patrick Cockburn, "President Petraeus? Iraqi Official Recalls the Day US General Revealed Ambition," The Independent; rpt. Truthout (13 Sep 2007) <link>.

Gareth Porter, "Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge," Inter Press Service; rpt. Truthout (12 Sep 2007) <link>.

John Taylor, "Thucydides vs. Victor Davis Hanson: Bogus Scholarship in Support of a Failed Policy," Antiwar.com (6 Sep 2007) <link>.

Chris Hedges, "The Next Quagmire," TruthDig (3 Sep 2007) <link>.

Paul Krugman, "Snow Job in the Desert," NY Times (3 Sep 2007); rpt. Common Dreams (3 Sep 2007) <link>.

James Kurth, "One-Child Foreign Policy," American Conservative (27 Aug 2007) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "Vietnam’s Real Lessons," LA Times (26 Aug 2007), rpt. Common Dreams (26 Aug 2007) <link>.

Richard Robbins, "Men in Black" [adaptation of Colby Buzzell, My War: Killing Time in Iraq], YouTube (8 Aug 2007) <link>.

Paul Waldman, "The Utter Uselessness of the Petraeus Report," American Prospect (22 Aug 2007) <link>.

Robert Scheer, "The Real Iraq Progress Report," TruthDig (21 Aug 2007) <link>.

Peter Graff, "U.S. Puts Ex-foes on Payroll at Iraq Front Line," Reuters (22 Aug 2007) <link>.

Teresa Smith, dir., "Inside the Surge" [video], The Guardian (Aug 2007), Part 1 <link>, Part 2 <link>.

Fred Kaplan, "Draft Numbers," Slate (14 Aug 2007) <link>.

Chris Floyd, "Goading Xerxes: A New Tactical Twist in the Coming War on Iran," LewRockwell (11 Aug 2007) <link>.

Greg Mitchell, "Why Isn't the Press on a Suicide Watch?" Editor & Publisher (13 Aug 2007) <link>.

Christopher Preble & David Rieff, "Inside Track: A Troubling Interventionist Consensus," The Nat'l Interest (8 Aug 2007) <link>.

Bruce Newman, "Documentary Explores Why There's 'No End in Sight' to War in Iraq," [San Jose] Mercury News (10 Aug 2007) <link>.

Chris Hedges & Laila Al-Arian, "The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness," The Nation (30 Jul 2007) <link>.

John Diaz, "In Bush We Trust—or Else," SF Chronicle (5 Aug 2007) <link>.

Hugh Gusterson, "Nuclear Terrorism: The New Day After," The Bulletin Online (24 Jul 2007) <link>.

Phillip Carter, "Irrelevant Exuberance," Slate (1 Aug 2007) <link>.

Mona Mahmoud, "Iraq Violence: Monitoring the Surge," BBC News (3 Aug 2007) <link>.

Mark Steel, "Why Does Saudi Arabia Need Military Aid?" The Independent (1 Aug 2007) <link>.

Tom Blankley, "The Hinge of Fate in Iraq," Real Clear Politics (1 Aug 2007) <link>.

Amy Goodman, "The Uncounted Casualties of War," AlterNet (1 Aug 2007) <link>.

Chris Hedges, "The Death Mask of War," Adbusters 72 (Jun/Jul 2007) <link>, & AlterNet (27 Jul 2007) <link>.

Robert Burns, "Iraqis Units Short of Qualified Leaders," AP (28 Jul 2007) <link>.

Robert Higgs, "If You Miss the First Time, Try Firing Another 300,000 Rounds," LewRockwell.com (24 Jul 2007) <link>.

Adam Cohen, "Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War," NY Times (23 Jul 2007) <link>.

Robert Kagan, "End of Dreams, Return of History," Policy Review [advance release] <link>.

Peter Galbraith, "Iraq: The Way to Go," NY Review of Books 54.13 (16 Aug 2007) <link>.

Mara Revkin, "Suppressing the Truths of War," American Prospect (18 Jul 2007) <link>.

Eric Alterman, "Death and Denial, Death and Denial...," Guardian (13 Jul 2007) <link>.

David Halberstam, "The History Boys," Vanity Fair (Aug 2007) <link>.

Holly Yeager, "Soldiering Ahead," Wilson Quarterly (Sum 2007) <link>.

Charles J. Hanley, "Curtain Falls on Iraq's 'M.A.S.H.,'" Victoria [TX] Advocate (2 Jul 2007) <link>.

Howard Zinn, "Put Away the Flags," The Progressive (1 Jul 2007) <link>.

Barack Obama, "Renewing American Leadership," Foreign Affairs (Jul/Aug 2007) <link>.

"2007 Terrorism Index," Foreign Policy (Jul/Aug 2007) <link>.

Ashley Gilbertson, Joanna Gilbertson, "Last Photographs," Virginia Quarterly Review (Sum 2007) 26-50 <link>.

Kai Bird & Svetlana Chervonnaya, "The Mystery of Ales," American Scholar (Sum 2007) <link>.

Benjamin Wittes, "Terrorism, the Military, and the Courts," Policy Review (Jun/Jul 2007) <link>.

Reviews

Jerome H. Farnum, The Positioning of the Roman Imperial Legions (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005), review by Peter Probst, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.09.52 <link>.

Malte Prietzel, Krieg im Mittelalter (Darmstadt, Primus Verl, 2006), review by Brian G H Ditcham, De Re Militari (Sep 2007) <link>.

Michael J. Neufeld, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (NY: Knopf, 2007), review by Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post (16 Sep 2007) <link>.

Norman Podhoretz, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism (NY: Doubleday, 2007), review by Ian Baruma, NY Review of Books (27 Sep 2007) <link>.

Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945 (NY: Viking, 2007), review by Adam Kirsch, NY Sun (5 Sep 2007) <link>

Alan B. Krueger, What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism (Princeton: Princeton U Pr, 2007), review by Tony Azios, CS Monitor (28 Aug 2007) <link>.

Neil J. Smelser, The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions (Princeton: Princeton U Pr, 2007), review by Joshua Sinai, Washington Times (2 Sep 2007) <link>.

Angus Konstam, The Forts of Celtic Britain (Oxford: Osprey, 2006), review by Sergio Montovani, De Re Militari (Jul 2007) <link>.

David Nicolle, Crusader Castles in Cyprus, Greece and the Aegean 1191-1571 (Oxford: Osprey, 2007), review by Sergio Montovani, De Re Militari (Jul 2007) <link>.

Helen Nicholson, Knight Templar, 1120-1312 (Oxford: Osprey, 2004), review by J.M.B. Porter, De Re Militari (Jul 2007) <link>.

Ian Howard, Swein Forkbeard’s Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017 (Oxford: Osprey, 2004), review by Cason Snow, De Re Militari (Jul 2007) <link>.

James R. Gaines, For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions (NY: Norton, 2007), review by Randy Dotinga, CS Monitor (4 Sep 2007) <link>.

Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953 (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2006), review by Andrew J. Bacevich, Nat'l Interest (29 Aug 2007) <link>.

Martin M. Winkler, ed., Spartacus: Film and History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), review by Theresa Urbainczyk, Bryn Maw Classical Review 2007.08.59 <link>.

Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (NY: Doubleday, 2007), review by David Wise, Washington Post (22 Jul 2007) <link>.

Martin M. Winkler, ed., Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007), review by Mary-Kay Gamel, Bryn Maw Classical Review 2007.08.09 <link>.

Ronald Florence, Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (NY: Viking, 2007), review by Michael Kenney, Boston Globe (31 Jul 2007) <link>.

William W. Batstone, Cynthia Damon, Caesar's Civil War (Oxford:  Oxford U Pr, 2006), review by Rex Stem, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.08.03 <link>.

Geraint Osborn, Hadrian's Wall and Its People (Exeter, UK:  Bristol Phoenix Pr, 2006), review by Joseph Lemak, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.07.59 <link>.

Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, & P.J. Rhodes, edd., Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium (Oxford: OUP, 2007), review by V.D. Hanson, TLS (21 Jul 2007) <link>.

Catrine Clay, King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War (NY: Walker & Co, 2007), review by Randy Dotinga, CS Monitor (24 Jul 2007) <link>.

Robin Waterfield, Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard U Pr, 2006), review by Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.07.41 <link>.

Adam Zamoyski, Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (NY: HarperCollins, 2007), review by Adam Kirsch, NY Sun (18 Jul 2007) <link>.

L. Canfora, Julius Caesar: The People's Dictator (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U Pr, 2007), review by Robin Seager, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.07.24 <link>.

J.C. Yardley, trans., Livy: The Dawn of the Roman Empire (Books 31-40), ed., Waldemar Heckel (Oxford: OUP, 2000), review by John Jacobs, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.07.14 <link>.

Robert D. Hormats, The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars (NY: Times Books, 2007), review by Glenn C. Altschuler, Baltimore Sun (1 Jul 2007) <link>.

Steve Vogel, The Pentagon: A History (NY: Random House, 2007), review by Yonatan Lupu, SF Chronicle (10 Jun 2007) <link>, & Chris Patsilelis, Phila Inquirer (22 Jul 2007) <link>.