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Summer 2008 |
Book Reviews A. J. Langguth's book Union 1812: Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence makes history read like a novel... Muhammad: Islam's First Great General by Richard A. Gabriel focuses on the political aspects of the religious leader... etc.   |
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Autumn 2007 |
Book Reviews Kimberly Kagan in The Eye of Command proposes that John Keegan's Face of Battle approach to narrating battles suffers fatal flaws... War Made New by Max Boot examines 500 years of military innovation... etc. |
Military History Quarterly
Summer 2007
Richard A. Gabriel |
The Warrior Prophet If Muhammad had not been an innovative and accomplished military leader, Islam might not have survived the seventh century. |
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Autumn 2006
Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy. |
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Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
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Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
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Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
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Winter 2006/2007 |
Book Reviews From Omaha Beach to Dawson's Ridge: The Combat Journal of Captain Joe Dawson. By Cole C. Kingseed... The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training and Root Causes. Edited by James J. F. Forest... etc. |
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November 2004 |
Book Reviews Surprise, Security and the American Experience... Arguing About War... The Regulars: The American Army 1898-1941... etc. |
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Winter 2005/2006 |
Book Reviews The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich... 1776 by David McCullough... West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond edited by Lance Betros... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman... etc. |
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Spring 2007
Dale C. Eikmeier |
Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic-Fascism If we are to know our enemy in the war on terrorism we must first recognize that regardless of the vintage or variety of militant Islam it is the "ideology" of the group or sect that serves as its center of gravity. |
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Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
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Autumn 2005
Harvey, Sullivan & Groves |
A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat The United States must understand the implications of its leadership in the global system, and how to use this position to demonstrate to moderates in the Islamic world why they should join us rather than attempt to beat us. |
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Summer 2005
R. D. Hooker |
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. |
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Summer 2004
P. W. Singer |
The War on Terrorism: The Big Picture In the fight against terrorism, are we deterring more terrorists than are being trained for the future? Are we spending so much money trying to capture them, that we're really getting behind? |
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Summer 2007
Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
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Spring 2005 |
Review Essay Is there a Chinese Way of War?... Political Success Trumps Operational Victory... Use Force Sparingly; Repeat as Often as Needed... etc. |
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Spring 2005
Christopher Henzel |
The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for US Strategy If American strategists fail to understand and exploit the divide between the establishments and the revolutionaries within Sunni Islam, the United States will play into the radicals' hands, and turn fence-sitting Sunnis into enemies. |
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Summer 2006
David W. Barno |
Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency Strategy in a global counterinsurgency requires a new level of thinking. A world of irregular threats and asymmetrical warfare demands that we Americans broaden our thinking beyond the norms of traditional military action once sufficient to win our wars. |
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Autumn 2006
Michael R. Melillo |
Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing. |
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November 2004
Philip Seib |
The News Media and the "Clash of Civilizations" "For the first time in history, global politics is both multipolar and multicivilizational." As the balance of power among civilizations shifts, the relative influence of the West is declining. |
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Spring 2005
Colin S. Gray |
How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War? For the West, and for the most part, 12 of the past 15 years can fairly be described as an interwar period. That brief no-name era, usually referred to neutrally as the post-Cold War period, came to an explosive end on 11 September 2001. |
Salon.com
October 18, 2001
M. A. Muqtedar Khan |
A memo to American Muslims It's time for us to search our souls. How can the message of Muhammad become a source of horror and fear? How can Islam inspire thousands of youth to dedicate their lives to killing others? |
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Winter 2005/2006
Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
Reason
January 2005
Chris Lehmann |
Among the Non-Believers The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, by Sam Harris derides the callow apocalyptic temper of the monotheistic traditions, while effectively seeking to bully readers into accepting nuclear Armageddon as a justified response to rampant fundamentalism. |
Salon.com
May 13, 2002
Laura Miller |
Death rattle? Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again... |
Reason
February 2002
Chris Bray |
The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters... |
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Autumn 2008
Robert M. Cassidy |
Terrorism and Insurgency Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives is a collection of essays that provide insight into the challenges that make this perennial and irregular war exceedingly difficult. |
Salon.com
September 29, 2001
David Talbot |
Democracy held hostage We are fighting for freedom -- including the right to vigorously debate. But the war fever crowd wants us all to march in step... |
Salon.com
October 30, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
A Jew in the mosque A self-described "average Israeli" talks about his daring journey to pray with the Holy Land's Muslims and Christians -- and why Arafat cannot head a Palestinian state... |
Reason
November 2007
Rogier van Bakel |
'The Trouble Is the West' Best-selling memoirist and former member of the Dutch parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, immigration, civil liberties, and the fate of the West. |
Reason
June 2006
Cathy Young |
The Jihad Against Muslims Radical Islam poses problems for the West, from within and from without. But if our response turns to bigotry directed at all Muslims, it will leave little reason for hope. |
Reason
February 2003
Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
Salon.com
September 24, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007 |
They're Muslims, And Yankees, Too A book examines the duality of Muslim-American life. |
Reason
September 2005 |
The Iconoclast Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection Step Across This Line. |
Salon.com
October 22, 2001
Max Garrone |
Fundamental problems Religious writer Karen Armstrong explains why Muslim nations have difficulty with democracy and the qualities that all forms of fundamentalism share... |
Salon.com
April 5, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Islam's black slaves The author of a book on the 1,400-year history of the other slave trade talks about the power of eunuchs, the Nation of Islam's falsehoods and the persistence of slavery today... |
Reason
October 2006
David Weigel |
It Can't Happen Here The fantasy worlds of War on Terror novels: If these are the first drips in a flood of wartime fantasies, we can count on many more years of paranoia. We should hope instead that these books become something the authors never intended: classic War on Terror kitsch. |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
ifeminists
August 18, 2004
Dirk Verhofstadt |
Muslims Need Critical Thinking - Irshad Manji With her book The Trouble with Islam the Canadian journalist and lesbian feminist joins the growing number of female Muslims that condemn the oppression of women in the Muslim world. |
Salon.com
April 10, 2001
Richard Blow |
Protest chic goes global Latter-day hippies and martial arts masters form an odd coalition in Taiwan to promote "global peace." But something is lost in the translation... |
Salon.com
December 4, 2002
Laura McClure |
What would Mohammed do? Geraldine Brooks, an expert on the role of women in Islam, says the "haters of beauty" behind the Miss World riots misrepresent what is a "pro-sexuality" religion. |
Reason
December 2002
Cathy Young |
Ecumenical Intolerance The sin of extremism is neither common to all Muslims nor limited to Islam. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2002
Laura Miller |
"My Jihad" American mujahedin Aukai Collins was a passionate convert to Islam. But his new memoir makes it clear that nothing got him more excited than the sound of a rocket-propelled grenade and the look in an enemy's eyes as he slit his throat. |
Salon.com
March 5, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Terrorists under the bed "Terrorism expert" Steven Emerson paints a terrifying picture of lethal Muslim fundamentalists among us in "American Jihad." But he doesn't know the difference between Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat... |
Wired
July 21, 2008
Jonathan Stevenson |
Tackling al Qaeda Where It Thrives -- Online America's current counterterrorism measures can do no more than tenuously contain a threat whose radical ideology spreads like a virus through cyberspace. |
Reason
March 2002 |
Letters Incompatible Islam?... Liberty sans Paradox... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2008
John Keller |
Dangerous Times Call for a Strong Military A continued strong U.S. military is our best chance of ensuring continued national prosperity. |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001
Janelle Brown |
"Purge our society," online bigots shout Post-disaster threats and expressions of racism bubble up on the Web... |
