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The Lost Battalion of TET: One Answer to the U.S. ...

What books are required reading for Army officers? When I was commissioned, Anton Myrer’s Once an Eagle was considered professional reading par ...
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The Forgotten Invasion

Lam Son 719 was one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. In a new book, Invasion of Laos, 1971: ...
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A New and Personal Narrative of Who Lost Vietnam

Over the decades that have passed since the Vietnam War, there has been a growing movement to turn that history ...
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Is Restraint a Realistic Grand Strategy?

In his 2014 commencement address at West Point, President Obama was explicit in contrasting the wisdom of foreign policy “restraint” with the ...
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The Lows and Highs of Life Aboard an Aircraft Carrier

Reading Geoff Dyer’s Another Great Day At Sea felt at times like being regaled with tales from places afar by a slightly ...
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A Review of Rory Kennedys Last Days in Vietnam

I was aboard one of the last helicopters out of Vietnam in late April 1975. Having covered the wars in Vietnam ...
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Voices of Pashtun Women from Wartime Afghanistan

I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan   Translated by Eliza Griswold, photographs by Seamus Murphy Farrar, Straus ...
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The Iraqis We Left Behind: A Book Review

TO BE A FRIEND IS FATAL: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind By Kirk W. Johnson Scribner, 338 ...