Your summer 2023 reading recommendations are here!
Are you assembling your reading list for the summer? I am, so I thought perhaps you’d be interested in some ideas. If you are new to the national security arena, may I invite you...
Category: Book Review
Guest Post: Dave Graham reviews “The Future Law of Armed Conflict” (Part 2)
Today’s post is Part 2 of Dave Graham’s review of West Point’s Lieber Institute’s excellent new work,“The Future Law of Armed Conflict.” As I said in introducing Part 1, given the prestigious authors involved...
Guest Post: Dave Graham reviews “The Future Law of Armed Conflict” (Part 1)
Today’s book review examines West Point’s Lieber Institute’s new work,“The Future Law of Armed Conflict.” Given the prestigious authors involved with this volume, I knew only one of the world’s top law of armed...
Mark Nevitt reviewing Bruce D. Jones’ “To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers”
I am extremely pleased to tell you that the guest reviewer today is Mark Nevitt, now an Associate Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. Mark is a former Navy judge advocate...
Dr. Bruce Jentleson on Nicholas Mulder’s “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War”
I am really excited about today’s guest contributer: Dr. Bruce Jentleson, the William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School. This is a world-renowned scholar whose bio below is way...
Kim Kotlar on “Spies, Lies and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence”
When I wrote about my summer reading recommendations (“Some summer reading recommendations (especially for those interested in national security!”, I mentioned that I hoped to have full-blown reviews for you in the coming weeks...
Dave Graham on Sam Moyn’s “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War” and much more!
In today’s post my friend (and, really, mentor of many years) retired colonel Dave Graham reviews Yale’s Sam Moyn’s provocative new book “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,.” I think...
Gary Solis reviews “Reducing Civilian Harm in Urban Warfare: A Commander’s Handbook”
When a reference on the law of war touts itself as a “Commander’s Handbook” it gets my attention, especially when it come with an imprimatur from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). ...
Guest book review: “The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War “
Today’s guest post is a review of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, “The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War.” The reviewer, Colonel Cliff Krieger, USAF (Ret.),...
ADM Jim Stavridis on the summer’s must-read book: “2034: A Novel of the Next World War”
Want a really important (yet also entertaining) summer read? I’d recommend 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, a new bestseller penned by my war college classmate and retired NATO commander Admiral Jim...
