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World War II
June 2007
Stephen Hyslop |
Blueprint for Blitzkrieg Hitler's chiefs harnessed lightning -- then discovered the difficulty of making it strike twice   |
World War II
June 2006
Williamson Murray |
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox's Defense of Normandy During World War II, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's decision to stop the Allied invasion of France at the water's edge was contrary to the rule book and anathema to his more tradition-bound contemporaries. |
Military History Quarterly
August 2007
William J. Astore |
The Tragic Pursuit of Total Victory: Germany's Unrelenting Offensive That Lost WWI Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff relied on martial spirit for a final push on the Western Front in 1916, with disastrous results. Confined to underground bunkers by opponents who could afford to throw a greater weight of shells, Germany's soldier-heroes wasted away. |
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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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Summer 2005
Pierre Lessard |
Campaign Design for Winning the War . . . and the Peace The current Western interpretation of campaign design must reunite with its strategic roots of ends and means in its quest to seek ways of winning both the war and the peace in the post-9/11 era. |
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Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
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Autum 2008 |
Book Reviews Looking for Trouble by Ralph Peters tales of his odyssey through a decaying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... Elizabeth Samet writes about teaching English at a military institution in her latest book Soldier's Heart... etc. |
World War II
Williamson Murray |
Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe. |
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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 2008
Michael Lind |
A Concert-Balance Strategy for a Multipolar World The United States is a superpower in search of a strategy. The neoconservative vision of unilateral US global hegemony lacks public support, but its critics have failed to propose a credible alternative capable of guiding US national security. |
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Summer 2007 |
Book Reviews Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar offers fresh insights on the war... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale is social history at it's best... etc. |
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Summer 2004 |
Book Reviews The New Chinese Empire... The Franco-Prussian War... First Great Triumph... etc. |
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Summer 2004
Ralph Peters |
In Praise of Attrition There is no shame in calling reality by its proper name. We are fighting, and will fight, wars of attrition. |
World War II
Williamson Murray |
Airborne Comes of Age From Germany's first major drop into Norway in 1940 to the Allies' last airborne operation across the Rhine in March 1945, tens of thousands of airborne soldiers fell from the skies to fight behind enemy lines. |
Salon.com
June 11, 2002
Allen Barra |
"The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor A historian describes Germany's fall to the Soviets in 1945, when civilians suffered the full fury and horror of war. |
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November 2004 |
Commentary & Reply Technology and the Yom Kippur War... More on "Attrition" -- Maneuver, Theory, and Strategy... 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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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. |
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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 2006 |
Book Reviews The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. By George Packer... On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom... Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations. By Alan D. Romberg... etc. |
National Defense
October 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Predicting the Future Of Warfare: Why Bother? Let down by the hype of technowarfare and wised up by the harshness of counterinsurgencies, the Army is not about to make grandiose jumps into the future. |
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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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Summer 2006
Conrad C. Crane |
Beware of Boldness The main argument of this article is that the US military does not need a culture that encourages daring risk-taking, especially at senior levels. We may already be paying a price in Iraq for this new emphasis on boldness. |
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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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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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Autumn 2007
Christopher M. Schnaubelt |
Whither the RMA? The present Department of Defense (DOD) focus on technological solutions to increase capabilities may be misguided by a vision of a high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). |
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Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
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Autumn 2004 |
Book Reviews In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. By Rick Atkinson... America's Inadvertent Empire. By William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric... The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. By James Mann... The Iraq War. By John Keegan... etc. |
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Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc. |
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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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Autumn 2007
Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
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Spring 2005
Metz & Millen |
Intervention, Stabilization, and Transformation Operations: The Role of Landpower in the New Strategic Environment A historic shift has taken place in the strategic environment as globalization and interconnectedness propel the concept of security in new, unforeseen directions |
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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. |
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Summer 2007
Patrick Porter |
Good Anthropology, Bad History: The Cultural Turn in Studying War To wage war, become an anthropologist. Today's military confrontation of "the West vs. the rest" replays ancient differences between strategic cultures. |
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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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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. |
National Defense
December 2003
Roxana Tiron |
Germany Launches Wide-Ranging Defense Reform The German government has until the end of this month to lay down the specifics for its 2005 defense plan, which will jumpstart a new effort to match the country's increased military commitments. |
World War II
October 2007
Lloyd Clark |
Operation Market Garden Reconsidered A British historian argues that Operation Market Garden wasn't such a bad idea after all. |
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Spring 2007 |
Book Reviews The new book, Fiasco, wastes no time in cutting a wide swath through Washington and Baghdad in this critique on the war in Iraq... State of Denial is the third book by Bob Woodward on the war in Iraq... etc. |
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Winter 2003/2004
Donald Chisholm |
The Risk of Optimism in the Conduct of War The Rapid Dominance approach to warfare can be appealing to a country like the U.S. that has technological advantages, but it requires an optimistic view on one's ability to manipulate the will of adversaries. |
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Summer 2004
Robert M. Cassidy |
Back to the Street without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars This article aims to distill some of the more relevant counterinsurgency lessons from the American military's experiences during Vietnam and before. |
| World War II |
Letters From Readers - January/February 2008 - World War II One of the greatest acts of mass murder in the history of warfare... I was a child survivor of the war in Shanghai, China... Lend-Lease tanks and aircraft only a small place in the Soviet force structure... etc. |
World War II
April 22, 2004
Brian Todd Carey |
Operation Pointblank: Evolution of Allied Air Doctrine In October 1943, the U.S. Eighth Air Force's losses became critical, forcing a reappraisal of the American daylight bombing strategy. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 30, 2005
Sean Silverthorne |
Germany's Pioneering Corporate Managers Harvard professor Jeffrey Fear's book Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management overturns some of our preconceptions of German business leaders. In this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. |
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Summer 2008
Robert Gates |
Reflections on Leadership Partners in Command, a book by Mark Perry, is an account of the unique relationship between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall, and how they played a significant role in the American victory in World War II. |
National Defense
October 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus. |
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Autumn 2005 |
Book Reviews The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. By Thomas X. Hammes... Who Killed the Canadian Military? By J. L. Granatstein... A War of a Different Kind: Military Force and America's Search for Homeland Security. By Stephen M. Duncan... etc. |
Military History Quarterly
Winter 2007
Edward L. Bimberg |
Augustin-Leon Guillaume's Goums in a Modern War Tribal Moroccan mountain fighters groomed for modern war by a tough French general played key roles in driving the Nazis from North Africa and liberating Sicily, Corsica, and Rome. |
National Defense
June 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things. |
Salon.com
April 12, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
The invention of peace A leading military scholar talks about what caused the world wars, why Kissinger was a true peacemaker and whether peace is incompatible with human nature... |
