This is one of those things that is disappointing, but not at all surprising: "You would hope that they would be spending a lot more on the schools in Pakistan than they would on book-related costs," says Borochoff. "Why doesn't Mr. Mortenson spend his own...
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Matterhorn is the Das Boot of the Vietnam-era Marine infantry company. Two tips when reading Matterhorn: Do NOT get attached to any of the characters, and have NO hope that.
Sadie Jones' Small Wars is a novel about British efforts to put down the Greek Cypriot insurgency in the mid-1950s. Jones concentrates on the Treherne family, including Hal, a British.
This is the sixth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of Power, Andrew Bacevich Huang Yasheng, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics Walter Laqueur, The Last Days of Europe...
This is the sixth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of Power,.
This is the fifth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of Power,.
The Patterson School 2010 Summer Reading List has been released: Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek David Kilcullen, Accidental Guerrilla Paul Collier, The Plundered Planet Walter Laqueur, The Last Days of Europe Greg Mortenson, Stones into Schools Stephen Cohen and...
The first two Philip Roth books I read were Portnoy's Complaint and Sabbath's Theater. These make for a rather abrupt introduction, but Roth quickly became my favorite from the post-war.
Dima Adamsky's The Culture of Military Innovation is a very recent contribution to the literature on culture, military innovation, and the Revolution in Military Affairs. Adamsky's question is this: Why.
Back in early 2008, partially in preparation for my visit to Israel, I read Christopher Tyerman's God's War: A New History of the Crusades. I had not previously been familiar with anything more than the broad outlines of the Crusades, including the seizure of Jerusalem,...
As conditions have deteriorated in Afghanistan in the past several years, academic and military specialists have paid greater attention to the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
First published in 1972, Norman Davies' White Eagle, Red Star covers the Soviet-Polish War of 1920. Davies went on to write extensively about Polish history in the 20th century, and.