Summer 2025 Reading Recommendations!
Summer is a great time to catch up on your reading! Vacations can provide some time to do the book reading that most Americans (as we’ll see below), want to do (but may not...
Category: Book Review
An excerpt of ADM Jim Stavridis’ must-read book: “The Admiral’s Bookshelf”
In the process of putting together my summer reading recommendations, I realized there is a truly must-read book that hasn’t appeared on any of my prior lists: retired Admiral Jim Stavridis’ new volume, The...
Ted Richard reviews “The Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations”
Today Lawfire® contributor Ted Richard gives us a very scholarly review of the new Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations. Ted tells us that the Woomera Manual is...
Graham Todd reviews “The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet”
Today Lawfire® contributor Graham Todd reviews Jeff Kosseff’s The Twenty-six Words That Created the Internet : The Twenty-Six Words That Could be Our Downfall by Graham Todd “There’s a war out there, old friend....
Dr. Ken Raffa on Richard Overy’s “Why War?”
If you’re in search of a new perspective on the role war plays in our lives, this book review is for you! Lawfire® contributor Dr. Ken Raffa reviews the military historian Richard Overy’s ‘Why...
Guest Book Review: “No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun”
Need to read something inspiring and meaningful? If so, today’s, post is for you. Lawfire® contributor Bill Knightly reviews a new book, John Stansifer’s “No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father...
Guest Book Review: “The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovations Determine the Fates of Great Powers”
Corrected link (I hope!) Today Graham Todd debuts a new guest contributor with an in-depth review of Andrew Krepinevich’s The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovations Determine the Fates of Great Powers. This...
JFQ Book Review: Ben Lambeth’s “Airpower in the War Against ISIS”
Ben Lambeth’s provocative book Airpower in the War Against ISIS is one I’ve long recommended. But now I’ll tell you why! My review of it was just published by Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ) and...
Some suggestions to kick off your 2024 reading plan!
Now that we are more or less settled into the new year, permit me to offer some suggestions to kick off your 2024 reading plan. I hope to have full reviews for several of...
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...
