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Book Review: How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them
Robert J. Bunker
Author: Barbara F. Walter
Reviewed by Dr. Robert J. Bunker, director of research and analysis, managing partner, C/O Futures LLC
How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them was written to acquaint readers with “the conditions that give rise to, and define, modern civil war” to “[understand how] close modern America is to erupting into conflict” (xviii). The reviewer notes, “American military officers, sworn government agents, and officials will find the work troubling” and praises its “nonpartisan exploration and objective analysis” in tackling a difficult topic.
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Book Review: Strategia: A Primer on Theory and Strategy for Students of War
Phillip Dolitsky
Author: Charles S. Oliviero
Reviewed by Phillip Dolitsky, master’s student at the School of International Service, American University
Strategia: A Primer on Theory and Strategy for Students of War poses the question “What is the true nature of war?” According to the author, even after studying war for 2,000 years, it is still misunderstood. Topics include war on land, war at sea, and war in the air. The reviewer notes that several relevant strategists names are noticeably absent from the work, including J. C. Wylie, Raymond Aron, Colin S. Gray, and Edward N. Luttwak, and even Thucydides.
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Book Review: Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
Wylie W. Johnson
Author: Robert L. O’Connell
Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Wylie W. Johnson, US Army War College class of 2010
Although early twentieth-century America’s Army was small, meagerly funded, short on equipment, and rife with other struggles, it saw the rise of great leaders. Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged focuses on four of them. They came from different backgrounds, yet “Together they accounted for 19 stars; together they brought about victory in their generation. Two became Chief of Staff of the Army. One rose to become the US Commander in Chief.”
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Book Review: The Good Captain: A Personal Memoir of America at War
Joseph J. Collins
Author: R. D. Hooker Jr.
Reviewed by Joseph J. Collins, PhD, retired US Army colonel
Retired Army colonel Rich Hooker’s The Good Captain is a memoir spanning the Cold War through the Global War on Terror. Hooker’s deployments take up the bulk of the book and include Grenada with the 82nd Airborne Division, Somalia to work with legendary Ambassador Bob Oakley, Zaire to coordinate humanitarian operations in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo as a parachute infantry battalion commander, the Sinai Peninsula for peacekeeping operations, command of the Dragon Brigade in Iraq and, in his last year of service, Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division. His description of the politics of the high command bears close examination.
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