book review

EDITED BY:  Dr. Graeme P. Herd PUBLISHED BY:  George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor To the West, Russia at times seems to be the goddess of discord. Uninvited…

AUTHOR:  Charles Emmerson PUBLISHED BY:  PublicAffairs REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor Humanity is on the cusp of achieving a long-sought commercial goal: year-round Arctic sea access. This would be a…

EDITED BY:  Rebecca M. Seaman PUBLISHED BY:  ABC-CLIO REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor War and disease appear to go together like love and marriage: There is an attraction at first blush, a courtship, an…

AUTHOR:  Oscar Jonsson PUBLISHED BY:  Georgetown University Press REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor Oh, for the days of clarity when nations declared war on their adversaries with courteous diplomatic notes and…

AUTHOR:  Ben Buchanan PUBLISHED BY:  Harvard University Press REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor Cyber war wasn’t supposed to be this way. We expected the digital equivalent of Pearl Harbor, signifying the…

AUTHOR:  Alexander Cooley PUBLISHED BY:  Oxford University Press, USA REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor In the 1800s, Russia and Great Britain played a geopolitical “great game” to control trade routes from…

AUTHORs:  P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking PUBLISHED BY:  Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor If war is, as Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz so memorably…

BOOK AUTHOR:  Mitchell A. Orenstein PUBLISHED BY:  Oxford University Press, 2019 REVIEWED BY:  per Concordiam Staff Mitchell Orenstein assures us that his book, The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid…

Edited by:  U.S. Army Col. William Mendel and Dr. Peter McCabe PUBLISHED BY:  JSOU Press REVIEWED BY:  per Concordiam Staff It is counterintuitive that nations should employ special operations military forces to combat…

AUTHORS: Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press, 2016 REVIEWED BY: per Concordiam Staff Seven precarious coalitions battled French attempts to dominate Europe in the Napoleonic…