Covert Operations Fail More Often than Not, so Why Do Leaders Order Them?
Michael Poznansky, In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar...
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Book Reviews
When War is Shift Work: The Human Impacts of the Military’s Reliance on Remotely Piloted Aircraft
Wayne Phelps, On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones (Little, Brown and...
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Seven Pillars Revisited: The Myths and Misreadings of T.E. Lawrence
Robert Johnson, Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert, 1916–18 (Osprey Publishing,...
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Twenty Years of America’s War in an Afghan Valley
Wesley Morgan, The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley...
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After Vietnam, American Society’s Relationship with Its Military Was Badly Frayed. After Twenty Years of Post-9/11 Wars, It Is Again.
Mark Treanor, A Quiet Cadence (Naval Institute Press, 2020) What occurs on the battlefield is not...
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All the General’s Men: Lessons from Pershing’s Subordinates in the American Expeditionary Forces
David T. Zabecki and Douglas V. Mastriano, Pershing’s Lieutenants: American Military Leadership in...
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A Military History of Political Wars
Ben Barry, Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq (Osprey...
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Fall In, Fallout: When the US Military (Almost) Brought Radiological Weapons to the Battlefield
Reid Kirby, Radiological Weapons: America’s Cold War Experience (2020) When the United Nations...
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