Archives: Jan-Feb-Mar 2009
 
Articles

Mark Mazzetti & Eric Schmitt, "Afghan Strikes by Taliban Get Pakistan Help, U.S. Aides Say," NYT (26 Mar 2009) <link>.

Scott Wilson & Al Kamen, "'Global War On Terror' Is Given New Name," WaPo (25 Mar 2009) <link>.

Lawrence Wilkerson, "Some Truths about Guantanamo Bay," Washington Note (17 Mar 2009) <link>, rpt. Truthout <link>.

Thomas E. Ricks, "The Dissenter Who Changed the War," WaPo (28 Feb 2009) <link>.

Robert Parry, "War Crimes and Double Standards," Consortiumnews.com (5 Mar 2009) <link>.

Thomas Harding, "Military to Use New Gel That Stops Bullets," Telegraph (27 Feb 2009) <link>.

Mark Mazzetti & David Sanger, "Obama Expands Missile Strikes inside Pakistan," NYT (21 Feb 2009) <link>.

Thomas Ricks, "The Dissenter Who Changed the War," WaPo (8 Feb 2009) <link>.

Ann Scott Tyson, "Weight of Combat Gear Is Taking Toll," WaPo (1 Feb 2009) <link>.

Ronald F. Maxwell, "Victory by Longbow," WSJ (22 Jan 2009) <link>.

Bill Luers, Tom Pickering, & Jim Walsh, "How to Deal with Iran," NYRB 56.2 (12 Feb 2009) <link>.

Dana Priest, "Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes to a Sudden End," WaPo (23 Jan 2009) <link>.

P.W. Singer, "Robots at War: The New Battlefield," Wilson Quarterly (Win 2009) <link>.

Michael Evans & Sheera Frenkel, "Gaza Victims' Burns Increase Concern over Phosphorus," TO (8 Jan 2009) <link>.

"German Battlefield Yields Roman Surprises," CNN.com (5 Jan 2009) [with video] <link>.

John Pike, "Coming to the Battlefield: Stone-Cold Robot Killers," WaPo (4 Jan 2009) <link>.

Reviews

Arthur M. Eckstein, Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC (Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2008), review by Joseph Frechette, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2009) <link>.

Clifford J. Rogers, Soldiers' Lives through History--The Middle Ages (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Pr, 2007), review by Daniel Franke, De Re Militari (Jan 2009) <link>.

Gareth C. Sampson, The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae, and the Invasion of the East (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2008), review by Jason M. Schulde, BMCR 2009.03.24 <link>.

Collaborative response to Lendering on Kaveh Farrokh, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War [BMCR 2008.09.62], BMCR 2009.02.02 <link>.

Joseph T. Glatthaar, General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse (NY: Free Pr, 2008), review by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2009) <link>.

Steven N. Dossman, Campaign for Corinth: Blood in Mississippi (Abilene,TX: McWhiney Fdn Pr, 2006), review by Daniel Sauerwein, H-Net Reviews (Mar 2009) <link>.

A. J. Birtle, U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976 (Washington: Ctr Mil Hist, 2006),  review by Joseph Babb, H-Net Reviews (Jan 2009) <link>.

Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education (NY: Penguin, 2009), review by Janet Maslin, NYT (26 Feb 2009) <link>.

G. J. Oliver, War, Food, and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens (Oxford: OUP, 2007), review by Michael D. Dixon, BMCR (2009.02.30) <link>.

Michael B. Cosmopoulos, ed., Experiencing War: Trauma and Society from Ancient Greece to the Iraq War (Chicago: Ares, 2007), review by Heather Sebo, BMCR (2009.02.25) <link>.

Clifford J. Rogers, Soldiers' Lives through History: The Middle Ages (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007), review by Daniel Franke, De Re Militari (Jan 2009) <link>.

David J. Breeze, Edge of Empire: Rome's Scottish Frontier, the Antonine Wall (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2008), review by Brad Eden, BMCR (2009.02.05) <link>.

Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler by Philipp Von Boeselager; Germans Against Hitler by Hans Mommsen; Luck of the Devil by Ian Kershaw, reviews by Laurence Rees, TO (4 Jan 2009) <link>.