Review (Guest): I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American...
Mark Dery Bad Thoughts, Great Book March 27, 2012 By Supervert< I find it impossible to discuss Mark Dery’s I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts in anything other than the first person. The book speaks so...
View ArticleReview (Guest): Westmoreland – The General Who Lost Vietnam – Includes Second...
Lewis Sorley A Man Promoted Above his Ability September 12, 2011 By Hrafnkell Haraldsson VINE™ VOICE I grew up during the Vietnam War. I was seven years old when General William Westmoreland was sent...
View ArticleReview (Guest): The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth &...
Robert David Steele PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN!,June 24, 2012 B. Tweed DeLions “B.T.” If there’s a single Founding Father of the Open Source movement, Robert D. Steele is it. Everyone else has...
View ArticleReview: Homeland Earth
Edgar Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Keeper – Joins Durant, Fuller, Ackoff,July 1, 2012 This is a PHENOMENAL book, a joint effort by Edgar Moron, whose life’s work includes...
View ArticleReview (Guest): Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Edited By: Paul B. Rich and Isabelle Duyvesteyn Routledge, 2012 Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 ‘counterinsurgency’ (COIN) has enjoyed a...
View ArticleReview (Guest): The Dark Sahara: America’s War on Terror in Africa
Jeremy Keenan Phi Beta Iota: See Berto Jongman: Algeria Fronting for US in Fabricating Al Qaeda Threat and Legitimizing US Military Occupation of Sahara? for a short-hand version of the book. On...
View ArticleReview (Guest): Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the...
Gerard Prunier 5.0 out of 5 stars a comprehensive account of a vast conflict May 29, 2009 By Kirk Huff This is going to be a complicated review.First, if you know nothing about the wars of central...
View ArticleReview: Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops: A History of A Breakaway Civilization:...
Jospeh P. Farrell 5.0 out of 5 stars This is an Information Operations / Counterintelligence Hidden Gem, December 23, 2012 The cover does this book a dis-service. This is a SERIOUS book that should be...
View ArticleReview: The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About...
5.0 out of 5 stars ABSORBING — An Essential Reading for Citizens and Soliders, February 4, 2013 I did a very detailed review of the author’s first book, In the Hot Zone and I recommend that book as...
View ArticleReview (Fiction): Hell or Richmond
Ralph Peters 5.0 out of 5 stars Equal to Cain at Gettysburg, Takes Fact-Based Fiction to New Level, May 13, 2013 I started this book, having given a rave review to Cain at Gettysburg convinced that the...
View ArticleReview: The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a...
Akbar Ahmed 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Star (My Top 10%) — The Book Susan Rice Should Read First, June 6, 2013 I received and read this book today, and while I am troubled by the author’s buying into the Bin...
View ArticleReview: Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror
Paul Vallely and Thomas McInerney 1.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guide to Morons in Power, June 19, 2013 This is the single best book for understanding what morons in power think when they pretend to...
View ArticleReview (Guest): Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s...
Radley Balko 5.0 out of 5 stars A must read! July 1, 2013 By John J. Baeza In his new book, Rise of the Warrior Cop, author Radley Balko provides a detailed history of our decline into a police state....
View ArticleReview: Lethal Incompetence
Jeff Bordin 5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic, Credible, Legitimate, and Damning of All Who Betray the Public Trust, August 24, 2013 I have this book in front of me, and will be doing a detailed review over...
View ArticleReview: American Interests in South Asia (Ho Ho Ho)
Nicholas Burns (Editor) , Jonathon Price (Editor) , Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Foreword) , Brent Scowcroft (Foreword) 3.0 out of 5 stars Parallel Universe — Divorced from Reality, September 20, 2013 I am in...
View ArticleReview (Guest): BREACH OF TRUST – How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and...
Andrew J. Bacedvich A disturbing but vitally necessary read. Take note, Mr President, and Congress too By Timothy J. Bazzett on September 10, 2013 Andrew Bacevich’s latest offering, BREACH OF TRUST, is...
View ArticleReview: Wrong Turn – America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-Regarded in Afghanistan, A Real Gem, November 22, 2013 This book is in our J-2 Library in Afghanistan, and it is a very well-regarded gem. This is a vitally important book. The...
View ArticleReview: They Were Soldiers – How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars: The...
Ann Jones 5.0 out of 5 stars A necessary book — Gabriel’s trumpet on true cost of war, December 3, 2013 A necessary book. The author has rendered a national — a global — service in documenting the...
View ArticleReview (Guest): Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse 5 of 5 stars. I was there, he is right on some things. By George James Kalergis on September 8, 2013 There is some evidence for his proposition. He greatly overstates the incidence of rape...
View ArticleReview (Guest): War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges When Cultures of Violence get mixed with the Myths of War, November 19, 2013 Herberg L. Calhoun When cultures of violence get mixed up with myths of war Chris Hedges is a scholar of...
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