How Do We Measure Counterinsurgency Success in Afghanistan?
Daniel R. Green, In the Warlords’ Shadow: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their...
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Book Reviews
Reflections on Anbar
Carter Malkasian, Illusions of Victory: The Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State...
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Much Ado About (Chinese) Nationalism: How Will China’s Past Shape its Future?
Robert Bickers, Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination (Allen Lane,...
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What Thucydides’s Trap Gets Wrong about the United States and China
Graham Allison, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Houghton...
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American Special Operations: Past, Present, and Future
Mark Moyar, Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces (Basic Books,...
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A Fictional Story of PTSD That is All Too Real
Alastair Luft, The Battle Within (Inkshares Books, 2017) In a 2005 monograph on the...
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Decisive Force in History: The Seductive Siren of Battle
Cathal J. Nolan, The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost (Oxford...
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Clausewitz the Soldier vs. Clausewitz the Strategic Theorist
Joseph Guerra reviews Donald Stoker’s Clausewitz: His Life and Work, finding it an interesting biography of the famed Prussian general but light on analysis of Clausewitz’s strategic theory.
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