NYT Books in Review: “U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual,” “Containment,” “On Suicide Bombing,” “The Edge of Disaster,” “Monstering”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Power-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror, by Ian Shapiro
On Suicide Bombing, by Talal Asad
The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation, by Stephen Flynn
“”Will the United States military have to assume greater risks to achieve greater safety in the end?…After 9/11, the military was singularly unprepared to deal with terrorists – and it showed.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Mahler-t.html?pagewanted=print
Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, by Tara McKelvey
“Abu Ghraib evinced a toxic mix: fatally misguided policy and undisciplined soldiers and interrogators.”
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