Articles

Anthony H. Cordesman,"A Civil War Iraq Can’t Win," NYT (30 Mar 2008) <link>.

Jeffrey Hart, "Right at the End: William F. Buckley’s Last Gift to Conservatism May Have Been His Opposition to the Iraq War," American Conservative (24 Mar 2008) <link>.

Phillip Carter & Fred Kaplan, "How to Fix the U.S. Military," Slate (31 Mar 2008) <link>.

Joshua Holland & Raed Jarrar, "Five Things You Need to Know to Understand the Latest Violence in Iraq," AlterNet (27 Mar 2008) <link>.

Carol J. Williams, "A Day in a Guantanamo Detainee's Life," LA Times (28 Mar 2008) <link>.

Fred Kaplan, "Warlord vs. Warlord: What Are They Fighting about in Basra?" Slate (27 Mar 2008) <link>.

Michael Kirk, prod., "Bush's War," Parts 1 & 2, Frontline [PBS] (24-25 Mar 2008) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Operation Cassandra," Antiwar.com (26 Mar 2008) <link>.

John Anderson, "'Boys Don't Cry' Director Turns Her Lens on What It Means to Be a Soldier," WaPo (25 Mar 2008) <link>.

"Lazare Ponticelli, the Last French Foot-Soldier of the First World War, Died on March 12th, Aged 110," The Economist (19 Mar 2008) <link>.

Zachary Coile, "Only World War II Was Costlier than Iraq War," SF Chronicle (18 Mar 2008) <link>.

Penny Coleman, "War Trauma Is an Admission of Weakness in 'Macho' Army Culture," AlterNet (14 Mar 2008) <link>.

Arthur Bright, "Speculation Persists about Admiral Fallon's Departure from Pentagon," CS Monitor (14 Mar 2008) <link>.

Mackubin Thomas Owens, "The Fall of Admiral George B. McFallon," Weekly Standard (12 Mar 2008) <link>.

William S. Lind, "When the Money Stops, Military Reform May Start," Antiwar.com (12 Mar 2008) <link>.

Thomas P.M. Barnett, "The Man between War and Peace," Esquire (11 Mar 2008) <link>.

Charles J. Hanley, " Studies: Iraq Costs US $12B per Month," Yahoo! News [AP] (10 Mar 2008) <link>.

William S. Lind, "Linear Tactics in a Chaotic War," Antiwar.com (5 Mar 2008) <link>.

Tony Judt, "The 'Problem of Evil' in Postwar Europe," NYRB 55.2 (14 Feb 2008) <link>.

Andrew O'Hagan, "Iraq, 2 May 2005," London Review of Books (6 Mar 2008) <link>.

Zoltan Barany, "Resurgent Russia? A Still-Faltering Military," Policy Review (Feb/Mar 2008) <link>.

George Packer, "Over Here: Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction," World Affairs (Win 2008) <link>.

Elizabeth Rubin, "Battle Company Is Out There," NYT (24 Feb 2008) <link>.

Theresa Hitchens, "Space Wars--Coming to the Sky Near You?" Scientific American (18 Feb 2008) <link>.

Chris Dixon, "Big Wheels for Iraq’s Mean Streets," NYT (24 Feb 2008) <link>.

Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes, "The Three Trillion Dollar War," [London] Times Online (23 Feb 2008) <link>.

Jeffrey Goldberg, "After Iraq," Atlantic.com (Jan/Feb 2008) <link>.

Robert Parry, "Bush Turns US Soldiers into Murderers," ConsortiumNews.com (13 Feb 2008) <link>.

Robin Wright, "Civilian Response Corps Gains Ground," WaPo (15 Feb 2008) <link>.

Manuel Miranda, "Departure Assessment of Embassy Baghdad,"  Embassy of the U.S.A. (5 Feb 2008) <link>.

Andrew J. Bacevich, "NATO at Twilight," LA Times (11 Feb 2008) <link>.

Michael R. Gordon, "Making a Case for a Pause in Troop Cutbacks in Iraq," NYT (13 Feb 2008) <link>.

Henry Siegman, "Gaza's Future," London Review of Books (7 Feb 2008) <link>.

Michael R. Gordon, "Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning," NYT (11 Feb 2008) <link>.

Scott Ritter, "Iraq’s Tragic Future," Truthdig (5 Feb 2008) <link>.

Patrick Cockburn, "A Week in Iraq: 'People Say Things Are Better, but It's Still Terrible Here,'" The Independent (3 Feb 2008) <link>.

William M. Solis, "Military Operations: Implementation of Existing Guidance and Other Actions Needed to Improve DOD's Oversight and Management of Contractors in Future Operations" [Testimony before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittees, U.S. Senate], GAO (24 Jan 2008) <link>.

Derek Chollet & Tod Lindberg, "A Moral Core for U.S. Foreign Policy," Policy Review (Dec 2007/Jan 2008) <link>.

David Bosco, "Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity," American Scholar (Win 2008) <link>.

Fred Kaplan, "Artificial Intelligence," Slate (14 Jan 2008) <link>.

Michael Evans, "Iraq War Has Been Terrible, Admits Minister," [London] Times Online (14 Jan 2008) <link>.

Christian Salmon, "Scheherazade in the White House," Le Monde diplomatique (Jan 2008) <link>.

Randall Collins, "Suicide Bombers: Warriors of the Middle Class," Foreign Policy (Jan 2008) <link>.

Michael D. Huckabee, "America's Priorities in the War on Terror Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan," Foreign Affairs (Jan/Feb 2008) <link>.

David Bosco, "Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity," American Scholar (Win 2008) <link>.

Tina Susman, "All Eyes on the Iraqi Army," LA Times (7 Jan 2008) <link>.

Michael C. Desch, "Declaring Forever War," American Conservative (14 Jan 2008) <link>.

Reviews

Michael Scheuer, Marching toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq (NY: Free Pr, 2008), review by David Rieff, NYT (16 Mar 2008) <link>.

Matt Welch, McCain: The Myth of a Maverick (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), review by Alan Block, Antiwar.com (22 Mar 2008) <link>.

Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence Tritle, Pat Wheatley, edd., Alexander's Empire. Formulation to Decay (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2007), review by Dawn Gilley, BMCR 2008.03.18 <link>.

David J. Breeze, Roman Frontiers in Britain (London: Bristol Classical Pr, 2007), review by Brad Eden, BMCR 2008.03.17 <link>.

Douglas Biggs, Three Armies in Britain: The Irish Campaign of Richard II and the Usurpation of Henry IV, 1397-99 (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2006), review by Compton Reeves, De Re Militari (Feb 2008) <link>.

Timothy May, The Mongol Art of War (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2007), review by Muhammed Hassanali, De Re Militari (Jan 2008) <link>.

Carol Sweetneham, trans., Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005), review by John D. Hoslet, De Re Militari (Jan 2008) <link>.

James Campbell, The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific (NY: Crown, 2007), review by Roger Miller, Denver Post (12 Jan 2008) <link>.

P.D. Smith, Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon (NY: St. Martin's, 2007), review by Saul Austerlitz, Moscow Times (15 Feb 2008) <link>.

Michael Burleigh, Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism (London: HarperCollins, 2008), review by Nicholas Shakespeare, The Telegraph (1 Mar 2008) <link>.

Arkady Babchenko, One Soldier's War (NY: Grove, 2008), review by Larry Sears, CS Monitor (19 Feb 2008) <link>.

James Barr, Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918 (NY: Norton, 2008), review by Adam Kirsch, NY Sun (20 Feb 2008) <link>.

Robert H. Ferrell, America's Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (Lawrence: U Pr of Kansas, 2007), review by Mark E. Grotelueschen, HNR (Feb 2008) <link>.

David Axe, Army 101: Inside ROTC in a Time of War (Columbia: U South Carolina Pr, 2007), Michael S. Neiberg, HNR (Feb 2008) <link>.

Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 (Harlow, UK: Pearson-Longman, 2007), review by Jasmin L. Johnson, HNR (Feb 2008) <link>.

James J. Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), review by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Int'l Herald Trib (8 Feb 2008) <link>.

Christy Constantakopoulou, The Dance of the Islands: Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World (Oxford: OUP, 2007), review by Robin Osborne, BMCR 2008.02.22 <link>.

David Green, Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2007), review by Stephen Cooper, HNR (Jan 2008) <link>.

Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, & Pamela R. Aall, edd., Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World (Washington, DC: U.S. Inst. Peace Pr, 2007), review by Ralph Hitchens, HNR (Jan 2008) <link>.

David Carment, Patrick James, & Zeynep Taydas, Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis (Columbus: Ohio State U Pr, 2006), review by Emma J. Stewart, HNR (Jan 2008) <link>.

Kurt A. Raaflaub, ed., War and Peace in the Ancient World (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), review by Peter Hunt, BMCR 2008.01.53 <link>.

Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (NY: Knopf, 2008), review by Eric Foner, The Nation (28 Jan 2008) <link>.

Adam Gopnik, "In the Mourning Store: Burying the Civil War Dead" [on Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (NY: Knopf, 2008) & Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Pr, forthcoming)], New Yorker (21 Jan 2008) <link>.

Eduard Nemeth, Politische und militärische Beziehungen zwischen Pannonien und Dakien in der Römerzeit. Relatiile politice si militare intre Pannonia si Dacia in epoca romana (I rapporti politici e militari tra la Pannonia e la Dacia nell'era romana) (Cluj-Napoca: Tribuna, 2007), review by Nelu Zugravu, BMCR 2008.01.33 <link>.

Alexander Acimovic, Scipio Africanus (NY:  iUniverse, 2007), review by John Jacobs, BMCR 2008.01.20 <link>.