The Peacemaker proceeds chronologically, beginning a couple of years before the 1980 election campaign and ending with Ronald Reagan’s last day in office. Inboden breaks each chapter up into many short sections, allowing him to weave together...
Written in the middle of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Finley has given her lead protagonists, the Caro family, the ultimate pre-retirement tour: a three-year assignment to Rome. Victor and Vanessa Caro, who embody a modern partnership between...
Another example from that same period demonstrates both the importance of works like O’Hanlon’s and the perils of study in insufficient breadth. Russell Weigley’s The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and...
Mud Soldiers: Life in the New American Army is an examination of the post-Vietnam U.S. Army and the pre-Gulf War Army. It serves as an excellent supplement to recent works on the AVF by authors like Beth...
Boyd van Dijk is currently an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Changing Global Orders program and Research Associate at Oxford University and an authoritative source on the history of international law. Preparing for War has ebullient reviews...
Notes: Risa Brooks, “The Paradoxes of Huntingtonian Professionalism,” in Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations. Military Society, Politics and Modern War, ed. Lionel Beehner, Risa Brooks, and Daniel Maurer (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020), 1; Risa Brooks;...
An Army Afire begins by describing the crisis conditions the U.S. Army faced amid the Vietnam War. These crises occurred on a global scale. In Vietnam, there were prison riots at Long Binh and an armed standoff...
The Strategy Bridge explores the state of civil-military relations in the United States and beyond for the final quarterly series of 2023. What are the most pressing issues to consider? What overlooked issues may be key to...
The Strategy Bridge explores the state of civil-military relations in the United States and beyond for the final quarterly series of 2023. What are the most pressing issues to consider? What overlooked issues may be key to...
The strategy neglects to explain why the United States and like-minded nations face this challenge. The United States invented the Internet and developed the most prominent internet and technology companies—so why does the United States seem overwhelmed...
