Archives: Jan-Feb-Mar 2006
 
Articles

Niall Ferguson, "Global Warning: Why a Modest Foreign Policy Serves America's Long-Term Interests," In Character (Win 2006) <link>.

David H. Petraeus, "Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq," Military Review (Jan/Feb 2006) <link>.

Charles Levinson, "In Iraq, Frontline Patience Wears Thin," CS Monitor (30 Mar 2006) <link>.

Pattrick Cockburn, "Battle for Baghdad 'Has Already Started,'" The Independent (25 Mar 2006) <link>. 

Steve Pizzo, "All the 'Good News' From Iraq," AlterNet (25 Mar 2006) [orig. News for Real] <link>.

Laurie King-Irani, "Iraq Three Years Later: A Glance Backfrom the 19th Century until Today," Electronic Iraq (20 Mar 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Top Ten Catastrophes of the Third Year of American Iraq," Informed Comment (20 Mar 2006) <link> & Electronic Iraq (20 Mar 2006) <link>.

Tony Cappaccio & Jeff Bliss, "U.S. War Spending to Rise 44% to $9.8 Bln a Month, Report Says," Bloomberg.com (17 Mar 2006) <link>.

Scott Peterson, "In Iraq, US Influence Wanes as Full-Scale Civil War Looms," CS Monitor (20 Mar 2006) <link>.

Pat Wingert & Evan Thomas, "On Call in Hell," Newsweek (20 Mar 2006) <link>.

Robert Scheer, "Bush's Fantasy of Progress in Iraq," AlterNet (16 Mar 2006) <link>.

Martin Wolk, "Cost of Iraq War Could Surpass $1 Trillion," MSNBC (17 Mar 2006) <link>.

Robert H. Reid, "After Four Years, Iraq Withdrawal Elusive," Seattle Post-Intelligencer (11 Mar 2006) <link>.

Jake Tripper, "Expert on Iraq: 'We're in a Civil War,'" ABC News (5 Mar 2006) <link>.

Bill Nichols, "8000 Desert during Iraq War," USA Today (7 Mar 2006) <link>.

Ed Wong, "U.S. Faces Latest Trouble with Iraqi Forces: Loyalty," Int'l. Herald Tribune (6 Mar 2006) <link>.

Sandra I. Erwin, "Insurgency Tactics Test Helicopters' Staying Power," National Defense (Mar 2006) <link>.

Jeff Severns Guntzel, "Can We Call It a Civil War Yet?" Electronic Iraq (1 Mar 2006) <link>.

BBC News, "Gangs 'Kill Freely' in Iraq Chaos" (2 Mar 2006) <link>.

Wyatt Kingseed, "Winfield Scott Hancock - A Forgotten Legacy," Armchair General (17 Feb 2006) <link>.

Kevin B. Zeese, "The Commander in Chief Has Lost the Troops," Antiwar.com (1 Mar 2006) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "War in Error: Sending a General To Do a Sheriff’s Job," American Conservative (27 Feb 2006) <link>.

Leo Shane, "Poll of Troops in Iraq Sees 72% Support for Withdrawal within a Year," Stars & Stripes (1 Mar 2006) <link>.

Sam Bostaph, "Monsters, Inc.," Future of Freedom Foundation (Feb 2006) <link>.

Luis Reis, "Revisiting Nelson and Trafalgar," Armchair General (7 Jan 2006) <link>.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "AJP Taylor," Prospect 120 (Mar 2006) <link>.

Lisa Burgess & Jeff Schogol, "Pentagon Report: Insurgent Attacks Hit Postwar High," Stars & Stripes (26 Feb 2006) <link>.

Robert D. Kaplan, "Go In Early, Go In Light, Go with Civilians," International Herald Tribune (21 Feb 2006) <link>.

Jim Lobe, "U.S. Holds Its Breath in Aftermath of Mosque Bombing," Inter Press Service (24 Feb 2006) <link>.

Mike Mount, "Pentagon: Iraqi Troops Downgraded," CNN.com (24 Feb 2006) <link>.

Robert Dreyfuss, "On the Brink in Iraq," TomPaine.com (24 Feb 2006) <link> = "Bush Is to Blame for Destroying Iraq," AlterNet (24 Feb 2006) <link>.

Dan Murphy, "Attack Deepens Iraq's Divide," CS Monitor (23 Feb 2006) <link>.

Jane Meyer, "The Memo," New Yorker (27 Feb 2006) <link>.

Francis Fukuyama, "After Neo-conservatism," NY Times (19 Feb 2006) <link>.

Megan K. Stack & Borzou Daragahi, "Iran Was on Edge; Now It's on Top," LA Times (18 Feb 2006) <link>.

Z. Pascal Zachary, "Thinking the Unthinkable in Iraq," AlterNet (16 Feb 2006) <link>.

Larisa Alexandrovna, "Outed CIA Officer Was Working on Iran, Intelligence Sources Say," The Raw Story (13 Feb 2006) <link>.

Jose Antonio Vargas, "Virtual Reality Prepares Soldiers for Real War," Washington Post (14 Feb 2006) <link>.

Matthew Dodd, "Just Another 'Average' Day," Defense Watch (13 Feb 2006) <link>.

Philip Sherwell, "US Prepares Military Blitz against Iran's Nuclear Sites," Telegraph (12 Feb 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "Cheney Authorized Libby to Disclose Classified Documents," Informed Comment (10 Feb 2006) <link>.

Grace Jean, "Game Branches Out into Real Combat Training," National Defense (Feb 2006) <link>.

Pamela Hess, "Defense Spending Approaching Cold War High," Spacewar (8 Feb 2006) <link>.

Scott Baldauf, "A 'Half-Full' Afghan Army," CS Monitor (10 Feb 2006) <link>.

Mike Mount, "Navy to Increase Numbers inside Iraq," CNN.com (7 Feb 2006) <link>.

Mark Mazzetti & Joel Havemann, "Iraq War Is Costing $100,000 per Minute," Seattle Times (3 Feb 2006) <link>.

Donald Rumsfeld, Quadrennial Defense Review Report (6 Feb 2006) <link>.

Robert Burns, "Pentagon Announces Sweeping Defense Review," Yahoo! News (3 Feb 2006) <link>.

Douglas Porch, "Spain's African Nightmare," Military History Quarterly (Win 2006) <link>.

Gordon Berg, "USCT Soldiers' Heroism at the Battle of New Market Heights," America's Civil War (Mar 2006) <link>.

John E. Gross, "The Tet Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh," Vietnam (Feb 2006) <link>.

Josh White & Ann Scott Tyson, "Rumsfeld Offers Strategies for Current War," Washington Post (3 Feb 2006) <link>.

Cindy Sheehan, "What Really Happened," Electronic Iraq (31 Jan 2006) <link).

Ferry Biedermann, "End Beckons for the 'United States of Iraq,'" Financial Times (2 Feb 2006) <link>.

Gail Russell Chaddock, "Senate Target: Bush's War Powers," CS Monitor (1 Feb 2006) <link>.

Tony Corn, "World War IV As Fourth-Generation Warfare," Policy Review (Jan 2006) <link>.

Carlin Romano, "Drawn and Quartered: a Short History of E.M. Cioran (1911-95)," Chronicle Review (3 Feb 2006) <link>.

Ralph Peters, "The Counterrevolution in Military Affairs," Weekly Standard 11.20 (6 Feb 2006) <link>.

Barry R. Posen, "Exit Strategy: How to Disengage from Iraq in 18 Months," Boston Review (Jan/Feb 2006) <link>.

Mark Sappenfield, "Is the US Army Prepared to Fight Another Iraq-style War? CS Monitor (27 Jan 2006) <link>.

Tom Regan, "US Audit Finds 'Spectacular' Waste of Funds in Iraq," CS Monitor (27 Jan 2006) <link>.

Gilbert Achcar, "First Reflections on the Electoral Victory of Hamas," Informed Comment (28 Jan 2006) <link>.

John Bellamy Foster, "The New Geopolitics of Empire," Monthly Review (Jan 2006) <link>.

Ivan Eland, "Military Action Against Iran?" Independent Review (23 Jan 2006) <link>.

Nigel Aylwin-Foster, "Changing the Army for Counterinsurgency Operations," Military Review (Nov/Dec 2005) 2-15 <link>.

Ehsan Ahrari, "US Sets Its Sights on Asymmetric Warfare," Asia Times (26 Jan 2006) <link>.

Roger Charles, "There Are More Than Just Cracks in the System," Defense Watch (24 Jan 2006) <link>.

Will Dunham, "Former Pentagon Chief Sees Damage to U.S. Military," Reuters (25 Jan 2006) <link>.

Howard Zinn, "After the War," The Progressive (Jan 2006) <link>.

Joseph R. Inge & Eric A. Findley, "North American Defense and Security after 9/11," Joint Force Quarterly 40.1 (2006) 23-28 <link>.

Jan S. Breemer, "Chasing U-Boats and Hunting Insurgents: Lessons from an Underhand Way of War," Joint Force Quarterly 40.1 (2006) 60-66 <link>.

William M. Darley, "Clausewitz's Theory of War and Information Operations," Joint Force Quarterly 40.1 (2006) 73-79 <link>.

Nicholas K. Sarantakes, "The Short but Brilliant Life of the British Pacific Fleet," Joint Force Quarterly 40.1 (2006) 85-91 <link>.

Robert Burns, "Study: Army Stretched to Breaking Point," AP (24 Jan 2006) <link>

Juan Cole, "Top Ten Mistakes of the Bush Administration in Reacting to Al-Qaeda," Informed Comment (24 Jan 2006) <link>.

Terrence McNally, "Battlefield Iraq," AlterNet (20 Jan 2006) <link>.

Michael Mandelbaum, "David's Friend Goliath," Foreign Policy (Jan/Feb 2006) <link>.

Richard Allen Greene, "Soldiers' Books Show Iraq's Front Line," BBC News (13 Jan 2006) <link>.

Niall Ferguson, "The Origins of the Great War of 2007and How It Could Have Been Prevented," Telegraph (15 Jan 2006) <link>.

Juan Cole, "10 Things Martin Luther King Would Have Done about Iraq," Informed Comment (16 Jan 2006) <link>.

Robert Dreyfuss, "Syria in Their Sights," American Conservative (16 Jan 2006) <link>.

Stew Magnuson, "Non-lethal Weapon Readied for Battlefield," National Defense (Jan 2006) <link>.

Sean McCann, "Therapy for a Wounded Nation," Common Review (Win 2006) <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "Army's Iraq Work Assailed by Briton," Washington Post (11 Jan 2006) <link>.

Andrew Cockburn, "How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?" CounterPunch (9 Jan 2006) <link>.

Nathaniel R. Helms, "Interceptor OTV Body Armor Cost Lives, An Internal USMC Reports Shows," DefenseWatch (11 Jan 2006) <link>.

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, "Who's Fighting Our Wars?" AlterNet (9 Jan 2006) <link>.

Jamie Wilson, "Iraq War Could Cost US over $2 Trillion, Says Nobel Prize-winning Economist," The Guardian (7 Jan 2006) <link>.

"Experts Say Iraq War Will Cost $1 Trillion," UPI (8 Jan 2006) <link>.

Martin Sieff, "Analysis: Iraq's Dark Realities," UPI (6 Jan 2006) <link>.

Michael Moss, "Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor," NY Times (7 Jan 2006) <link>.

David Morton, "Gunning for the World," Foreign Policy (Jan/Feb 2006) <link>.

Charles Peña, "Troop Reduction Legerdemain," Antiwar.com (5 Jan 2006) <link>.

Sandra I. Erwin, "Army's Armored Force: Mix of Old and New," National Defense (Jan 2006) <link>.

Norman Podhoretz, "The Panic over Iraq," Commentary (Jan 2006) <link>.

Frederick W. Kagan, "Iraq Is Not Vietnam," Policy Review 134 (Dec 2005/Jan 2006) <link>.

Frederick Kagan, "Iraq Is Not Vietnam," Policy Review 134 (Dec 2005/Jan 2006) <link>.

Victorino Matus, "On the Disposal of Dictators," Policy Review 134 (Dec 2005/Jan 2006) <link>.


Reviews

Roger Spiller, An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Pr, 2005), review by Rick Baillergeon, Armchair General (19 Feb 2006) <link>.

James Tackach, Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address (Jackson: U Pr of Mississippi, 2002), review by Randal W. Allred, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2006) <link>.

Richard F. Welch, The Boy General: The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson U Pr, 2003), review by Gregory J. Dehler, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2006) <link>.

The Russian General Staff, The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost, trans. & ed. Lester W. Grau & Michael A. Gress (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2002), review by Jonathan M. House, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2006) <link>.

E. Bruce Reynolds, Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II (Cambridge: CUP, 2005), review by Phillip J. Ridderhof, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2006) <link>.

Constantine C. Menges, China: The Gathering Threat (Nashville, TN: Nelson Current, 2005), review by Travis Fell, StrategyPage (4 Mar 2006) <link>.

Victor Davis Hanson, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think (NY: Doubleday, 2003), review by Harold C. Hutchison, StrategyPage (20 Feb 2006) <link>.

Alfred Emile Cornebise, The United States 15th Infantry Regiment in China, 1912-1938 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004), review by Philip R. Abbey, StrategyPage (4 Jan 2006) <link>.

Michael A. Ross, Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era (Baton Rouge: LSU Pr, 2003), review by Michael Green, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2006) <link>.

Ethan S. Rafuse, McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union (Bloomington: Indiana U Pr, 2005), reviews by Michael Thomas Smith, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2006) <link> & William J. Miller, America's Civil War (Mar 2006) <link>.

Flint Whitlock, The Fighting First: The Untold Story of the Big Red One on D-Day (Boulder, CO: Westview Pr, 2004), John C. McManus, The Americans at D-Day: The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion (NY: Forge Book, 2004), id., The Americans at Normandy: The Summer of 1944The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise (NY: Forge Book, 2004), reviews by Thomas A. Bruscino, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2006) <link>.

Ralph D. Berenger, ed., Global Media Go to War: Role of News and Entertainment Media during the 2003 Iraq War (Spokane: Marquette Books, 2004), review by James Landers, H-Net Reviews (Feb 2006) <link>.

Charles Allen, God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2006), review by Anthony Sattin, TLS (19 Feb 2006) <link>.

A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities:
The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan
(NY: Walker & Co., 2005), review by Michael Burleigh, TLS (5 Feb 2006) <link>.

Jane E. Schultz, Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2004), review by Megan Seaholm, H-Net Reviews (Feb 2006) <link>.

Earl J. Hess, Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864 (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2005), review by Mark A. Youngren, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

David M. Rosen, Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U Pr, 2005), review by Eugenia C. Kiesling, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

David Silbey, The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916 (London & NY: Frank Cass, 2005), review by Nikolas Gardner, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy (New Haven: Yale U Pr, 2006), reviews by Michiko Kakutani, NY Times (14 Mar 2006) <link>, & Paul Berman, NY Times (26 Mar 2006) <link>.

Girolamo Arnaldi, Italy and Its Invaders, trans. A. Shugar (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard U Pr, 2005), review by John Lewis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.03.30 <link>.

R.T. Wallinga, Xerxes' Greek Adventure: The Naval Perspective (Leiden:  Brill, 2005), review by David Potter, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.03.29 <link>.

Philip St. George Cooke, Cavalry Tactics, or Regulations for the Instruction, Formations, and Movements of the Cavalry of the Army and Volunteers of the United States [Unabridged reproduction of the Government Printing Office's 1862 edition] (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2004), review by Michael Maben, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

James S. Corum & Wray R. Johnson, Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2003), review by Russell Parkin, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

John Waldman, Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2005), review by Mark Charles Fissel, De Re Militari (Mar 2006) <link>.

Danielle Trussoni, Falling through the Earth: A Memoir (NY: Holt, 2006), review by Kathryn Harrison, NY Times (12 Mar 2006) <link>.

Ted Morgan, My Battle of Algiers (NY: Collins, 2006), reviews by Richard Horan, CS Monitor (21 Feb 2006) <link> & by Anthony Swofford, Washington Post (12 Mar 2006) <link>.

Derrick Wright, To the Far Side of Hell: The Battle for Peleliu, 1944 (Tuscaloosa: U Alabama Pr, 2005), review by Neal A. Ferguson, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

Carol Bundy, The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-1864 (NY: FS&G, 2005), review by Robert A. Taylor, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

Frank J. Merli, Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861-1865 (Bloomington: Indiana U Pr, 2004), review by Christian Lund, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

James M. Perry, Touched with Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That Made Them (NY: Public Affairs, 2003), review by David R. Dean, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2006) <link>.

The Royal Shakespeare Company, The War That Still Goes On, Novello Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London (12 Feb 2006), review by Neil Forsyth, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.03.09 <link>.

Julie Flint & Alex de Waal, Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (London: Zed Books, 2006) & Gérard Prunier, Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (Ithaca: Cornell U Pr, 2005), reviews by Nicholas D. Kristof, NY Review of Books 53.2 (9 Feb 2006) <link>.

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right (NY: Times Books, 2006), review by David Cole, NY Review of Books 53.4 (9 Mar 2006) <link>.

George Packer, Assassin's Gate (NY: FS&G, 2005), review by Peter W. Galbraith, NY Review of Books 53.4 (9 Mar 2006) <link>.

David G. Dalin, The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Washington: Regnery, 2005) & Ronald J. Rychlak, Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis (Dallas, TX: Spence, 2005), reviews by Michael Burleigh, Literary Review (Feb 2006) <link>.

Philip D. Crane, Spitfires, Thunderbolts, and Warm Beer: An American Fighter Pilot over Europe (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005), review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (Feb 2006[?]) <link>.

John Craddock, First Shot: The Untold Story of the Japanese Minisubs That Attacked Pearl Harbor (NY: McGraw Hill, 2006), review by Richard N. Story, Armchair General (Jan 2006[?]) <link>.

Thomas Fleming, Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge (NY: Collins, 2006), review by Joseph N. DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer (23 Feb 2006) <link>.

Max Hastings, Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield (NY: Knopf, 2006), review by Muriel Dobbin, Washington Times (19 Feb 2006) <link>.

Johan Henrik Schreiner, Two Battles and Two Bills: Marathon and the Athenian Fleet (Oslo: U Oslo Pr, 2004), review by John Buckler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.02.38 <link>.

Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon, The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right (NY: Henry Holt, 2005), review by Richard A. Falkenrath, Foreign Affairs (Jan/Feb 2006) <link>.

Jonathan Kaplan, Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon's Education (NY: Grove Pr, 2005), review by Phil Whitaker, Guardian Unlimited (4 Feb 2006) <link>.

Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (NY: Knopf, 2005), review by Efraim Karsh, Commentary (Feb 2006) <link>.

John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (NY: Penguin, 2005), review by Jonathan Rosenberg, CS Monitor (20 Dec 2005) <link>, review by Michael Beschloss, NY Times (15 Jan 2006) <link>, review by Richard Pipes, Commentary (Feb 2006) <link>.

Antony Beevor & Lucy Vinogradova, trr. & edd., A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945 (London: Harvill / NY: Pantheon, 2006) and Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War: The Red Army, 1939–1945 (London: Faber / NY: Metropolitan Books, 2006), reviews by Omer Bartov, TLS (25 Jan 2006) <link> & David Pryce-Jones, Commentary (Feb 2006) <link>.

James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (NY: Free Press, 2006), reviews by Walter Isaacson, NY Times (5 Feb 2006) <link> & by Thomas Powers, NY Review of Books 53.3 (23 Feb 2006) <link>.

Norman Moss, Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940 (NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), review by Mary Kathryn Barbier, World War II (Jan 2006) <link>.

Charles T. O’Reilly and William A. Rooney, The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Institution (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005), review by Conrad Crane, World War II (Jan 2006) <link>.

Peter S. Carmichael, The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Pr, 2005), review by Eric J. Mink, America's Civil War (Jan 2006) <link>.

David Leavitt, The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer, review by Jim Holt, New Yorker (6 Feb 2006) <link>.

Daniel Charles, Between Genius and Genocide: The Tragedy of Fritz Haber, Father of Chemical Warfare (London: Cape, 2005), review by Steven Shapin, London Review 28.2 (26 Jan 2006) <link>.

Susan Butler, ed., My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin (New Haven: YUP, 2006), review by Antony Beevor, The Times Online (28 Jan 2006) <link>.

John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security and the American Experience (Cambridge, MA: HUP, 2004), review by L. Yambrick, Joint Force Quarterly 40.1 (2006) 93 <link>.

James Kitfield, War and Destiny: How the Bush Revolution in Foreign Affairs Redefined American Power (Washington: Potomac Books, 2005), review by Joseph J. Collins, Joint Force Quarterly 40.1 (2006) 93-94 <link>.

James J. Carafano & Paul Rosenzweig, Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom (Washington: Heritage Books, 2005), review by Thomas G. Mahnken, Joint Force Quarterly 40.1 (2006) 94-95 <link>.

Michael E. O'Hanlon, Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary: Constraining the Military Use of Space (Washington: Brookings, 2004), review by John M. Logsdon, Joint Force Quarterly 40.1 (2006) 95-96 <link>.

George McKee Elsey, An Unplanned Life: A Memoir (Columbia: U Missouri Pr, 2005), review by Brian Burnes, Chicago Tribune (15 Jan 2006) <link>.

Richard Slotkin, Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality (NY: Henry Holt, 2005), review by Michael Kenney, Boston Globe (20 Dec 2005) <link> & review by Robert W. Cherny, SF Chronicle (15 Jan 2006) <link>.

Gordon C. Chang, Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World (NY: Random House, 2006), review by David Sanger, NY Times (19 Jan 2006) <link>.

Loren J. Samons II, What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (Berkeley: U California Pr, 2004), review by Mogens H. Hansen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.01.32 <link>.

Margaret L Kekewich & Susan Rose, Britain, France and the Empire 1350-1500 (Basingstoke/NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), review by Brian Ditcham, De Re Militari (Jan 2006) <link>.

Andrew Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (NY: Oxford U Pr, 2005), review by Edward A. Wilson, Independent Review 10.3 (Win 2006) <link>, review by Kevin C.M. Benson, Military Review (Nov/Dec 2005) 87-88 <link>.

L. Paul Bremer & Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005), review by Michiko Kakutani, NY Times (12 Jan 2006) <link>, review by Alexander Zaitchik, SF Chronicle (29 Jan 2006) <link>, review by Dexter Filkins, NY Times (26 Feb 2006) <link>, review by Peter W. Galbraith, NY Review of Books 53.4 (9 Mar 2006) <link>.

Antony Beevor & Luba Vinogradova, edd. & trr., A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 (NY: Pantheon, 2006), review by William Grimes, NY Times (11 Jan 2006) <link>.

James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration (NY: Free Press, 2005), review by James Bamford, NY Times (9 Jan 2006) <link>

Paul Watkins, The Ice Soldier (NY: Henry Holt, 2005), review by Marjorie Kehe, CS Monitor (3 Jan 2006) <link>.

David Reynolds, In Command of History: Churchill Fightin and Writing the Second World War (NY: Random House, 2005), NY Times (13 Nov 2005) <link>, Policy Review 134 (Dec 2005/Jan 2006) <link>, American Spectator (21 Dec 2005) <link>, Military History (Mar 2006) <link>.