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Book Review: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Josh VanBuskirk
Author: Scott Horton
Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Josh VanBuskirk, commander, 6th Battalion, 95th Regiment, San Antonio, Texas
Billed by the reviewer as “must-read for military professionals who want to understand how the United States and Russia came to the precipice of war,” this book posits that the Washington bipartisan foreign policy consensus is to blame for the Russia-Ukraine War. Using US diplomats, bureaucrats, defense contractors, and politicians to make his point, Horton uses their work to argue for restraint when dealing with Russia.
©2025 Josh VanBuskirk
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Book Review: Unit X: how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Robert D. Bradford III
Author: Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchoff
Reviewed by Robert D. Bradford III, associate professor of defense and Joint processes, US Army War College
Bureaucracy versus technology. The Pentagon versus Silicon Valley. Is cooperation possible? If you have ever wondered how the US military and civilian technological institutions can work together to America’s advantage, Robert D. Bradford III’s review of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War explores the story of the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and its connection to the Department of Defense and Silicon Valley.
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Book Review: Next War: Reimagining How We Fight
Jeffrey Caton
Author: John Antal
Reviewed by Colonel Jeffrey Caton (US Air Force, retired), president, Kepler Strategies LLC
In Next War: Reimagining How We Fight, by John Antal, the author’s goal is to “draw lessons and conclusions from the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Israeli-Hamas War, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War.” He highlights nine disrupters that he claims are changing modern warfare. Reviewer Jeffery Caton sees room for improvement.
©2025 Jeffrey Caton
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Book Review: Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
Brennan Deveraux
Author: John A. Nagl
Reviewed by Major Brennan Deveraux, national security researcher, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
Today’s force still has plenty to learn about counterinsurgency from Operation Desert Storm. John Nagl’s Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice “a book about counterinsurgency and its journey from the far periphery of US military doctrine to its center, for better and, some would argue, for worse.” The reviewer notes, Nagl’s work “provides a tangible example of the impact junior leaders can have on the service.”
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