Book Reviews

Brains, Bluntness, and the Battle for US Foreign Policy: The Legacy of Zbig Brzezinski

Sam Wilkins | 07.25.25

Edward Luce, Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet (Avid Reader,...

Molten Visions, Broken Blades: The Challenge of Forecasting the Character of Future Combat

Antonio Salinas | 07.03.25

Ben Connable, Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War (Georgetown University Press,...

War, Bound: Fiscal Constraints, Tactical Realities, and Contemporary Land Warfare

Gil Barndollar | 06.25.25

Wilf Owen, Euclid’s Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today (Howgate Publishing, 2025) It’s...

Remembering the Arghandab

Ethan Brown | 05.17.24

William Yeske, Damn the Valley: 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2-508 PIR, 82nd Airborne in the...

Can Startup Culture and Army Culture Coexist? Lessons from the Creation of the 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade

Jahara Matisek | 03.26.24

David B. Rowland, Green Light, Go! The Story of an Army Start Up (Koehler Books, 2023) Growing...

Imagining the Future of Landpower

Frank Hoffman | 12.08.23

Jack Watling, The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century...

How the War for Taiwan Will Be Fought—and Won

Noah B. Cooper | 07.11.23

Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan (Casemate Publishers, 2023) Is China genuinely...

Pacific War Manual: Modern Warfare Lessons—from the US Army in World War II

Benjamin Phocas | 06.22.23

John C. McManus, Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941–1943 (Penguin Random...

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