Browsing Category

book review

Arctic Futures

per Concordiam
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…

The Two Horsemen: War and Plague

per Concordiam
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…

Blurred Lines

per Concordiam
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…

The New Normal

per Concordiam
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…

The Contest For Central Asia

per Concordiam
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…

‘War by other memes’

per Concordiam
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…

Hybrid War in the Lands in Between

per Concordiam
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…

An Essential Military Role

per Concordiam
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…

What the Past Reveals

per Concordiam
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…

The battle for digital supremacy

per Concordiam
Book author: David Patrikarakos Published by: Basic Books Reviewer: per Concordiam Staff Social media has made a mockery of the old saw that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Today,…