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BINKIN, MARTIN. Who Will Fight the Next War? (1993). The author focuses on “the changing face of the American military” through the Gulf War, including the place of women and African Americans in the armed forces.
CLARKE, RICHARD. Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror (1994). A chief counterintelligence specialist under Clinton and Bush, Clarke describes the Bush administration’s tendency to distort facts in persuading Americans to go to war with Iraq in 2003.
JENTLESON, BRUCE W. With Friends Like These (1996). Details the ways that Presidents Reagan and Bush supported Saddam Hussein as a counterweight to Muslim fundamentalist regimes in the Middle East.
LANE, CHARLES. “The Legend of Colin Powell,” New Republic, April 17, 1995. Brings to light some of the criticisms of Powell’s career—many of which strike me, however, as overstated or unfounded.
LEOGRANDE, WILLIAM M. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992 (1998). History of U.S. support—often secret—of counterinsurgency in Nicaragua and El Salvador during the final years of the cold war.
MOSKOS, CHARLES C., ET AL., EDITORS. The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces after the Cold War (2000). Essays on the evolution of the military in twelve Western democracies during the past decade.
PELLETIERE, STEPHEN C. “War Crime or an Act of War.” New York Times, January 31, 2003, section A, page 29. Pelletiere, who was the CIA’s senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war, makes the argument that Iran and Iraq share the responsibility for the civilian deaths at Halabja in March 1988.
POWELL, COLIN. My American Journey (1995). Powell’s book is one of the best-written and most informative autobiographies by any American public figure.
PRUDEN, CAROLINE. Conditional Partners: Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the Search for a Permanent Peace(1988). Americans in 2003 were following closely the relationship between the United States and the United Nations over Iraq. This book describes the early history of cooperation and tension between the United States and the United Nations, focusing on such matters as Korea, Indochina, and Guatemala.
WOODWARD, BOB. The Commanders (1991). Colorful contemporary account of the Gulf War and its leaders.
———. Bush at War (2002). The first year of the George W. Bush’s presidency, including the war in Afghanistan and the role of Colin Powell in placing the Iraq question before the United Nations.
BINKIN, MARTIN. Who Will Fight the Next War? (1993). The author focuses on “the changing face of the American military” through the Gulf War, including the place of women and African Americans in the armed forces.
CLARKE, RICHARD. Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror (1994). A chief counterintelligence specialist under Clinton and Bush, Clarke describes the Bush administration’s tendency to distort facts in persuading Americans to go to war with Iraq in 2003.
JENTLESON, BRUCE W. With Friends Like These (1996). Details the ways that Presidents Reagan and Bush supported Saddam Hussein as a counterweight to Muslim fundamentalist regimes in the Middle East.
LANE, CHARLES. “The Legend of Colin Powell,” New Republic, April 17, 1995. Brings to light some of the criticisms of Powell’s career—many of which strike me, however, as overstated or unfounded.
LEOGRANDE, WILLIAM M. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992 (1998). History of U.S. support—often secret—of counterinsurgency in Nicaragua and El Salvador during the final years of the cold war.
MOSKOS, CHARLES C., ET AL., EDITORS. The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces after the Cold War (2000). Essays on the evolution of the military in twelve Western democracies during the past decade.
PELLETIERE, STEPHEN C. “War Crime or an Act of War.” New York Times, January 31, 2003, section A, page 29. Pelletiere, who was the CIA’s senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war, makes the argument that Iran and Iraq share the responsibility for the civilian deaths at Halabja in March 1988.
POWELL, COLIN. My American Journey (1995). Powell’s book is one of the best-written and most informative autobiographies by any American public figure.
PRUDEN, CAROLINE. Conditional Partners: Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the Search for a Permanent Peace(1988). Americans in 2003 were following closely the relationship between the United States and the United Nations over Iraq. This book describes the early history of cooperation and tension between the United States and the United Nations, focusing on such matters as Korea, Indochina, and Guatemala.
WOODWARD, BOB. The Commanders (1991). Colorful contemporary account of the Gulf War and its leaders.
———. Bush at War (2002). The first year of the George W. Bush’s presidency, including the war in Afghanistan and the role of Colin Powell in placing the Iraq question before the United Nations.
