Wounds of war; Jewish holiday chance to reflect on conflict.
Byline: Bronislaus B. Kush At sunset, Jews around the world will begin their observance of Yom Kippur, a solemn day marked by prayer, fasting, and repentance for misdeeds of the past year. Many will also pause to reflect upon the deep emotional scars inflicted upon...

South Africa's new counter-mercenary law.
ABSTRACT An overview is provided of the new counter-mercenary legislation recently adopted in South Africa, comparing existing legislation and the new Act. Suggestions are made, with reference to international humanitarian law, in respect of the interpretation of terminology and definitions used within the context of the new...

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence.
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. By John Ferling. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 679. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518121-0.) John Ferling has been writing distinguished work on war in early America and the American Revolution for quite...

The AEF way of war; the American army and conflict in World War I.
9780521864343 The AEF way of war; the American army and conflict in World War I. Grotelueschen, Mark Ethan. Cambridge U. Pr. 2007 387 pages $75.00 Hardcover D570 Taking his cue from...

ARAB US RELATIONS - Aug 8 - US Endorses $20 Bn Bid To Aid Afghans.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will endorse a $20 bn plan to substantially increase the size of Afghanistan's army and will also restructure the military command of American and NATO forces in response to the growing Taliban threat. Taken together, the two decisions are an acknowledgment of shortcomings that continue...

Col. Mary Edna Mahar.
WORCESTER Col. Mary Edna Mahar, 87 of Plantation St. Worcester, formerly of Auburn, died unexpectedly in her home on Sunday. She is survived by her sister, Dorothy Mae Clarke, of Worcester; a brother, Robert F. Mahar, of Brandon, FL; a niece, Linda Wood, of Mansfield Center, CT,...

Information weapons and information warfare: realities and speculations.
Vladimir Ivanovich ORLYANSKIY was born on April 14, 1948, in the village of Divnoye, Stavropol Territory. V.l. Orlyanskiy graduated from Ordzhonikidze Higher General Military Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Yeremenko (1971), Frunze Military Academy (1982), Post-Graduate School (1987) and Doctorate School (1996) of Frunze...

Downsizing: what the 'surge' really means.
War, we must always remind ourselves, is the continuation of politics by other means. Understanding any war requires first understanding that war's political basis. What brings the parties into conflict? What are they fighting for? The challenge of grasping the politics underlying the "Global War on Terror"...

Where War Lives.
WHERE WAR LIVES Paul Watson Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2007. 367pp, $34.99 cloth (ISBN 0771088221) "If you do this, I will own you forever." Those were the words journalist Paul Watson heard in his head as he took a picture of the desecrated...

When is a war not a war? Defining and achieving victory in Iraq.
The war in Iraq is a phrase repeated every day by media outlets and politicians throughout the world. In the debate about how to proceed in Iraq, the unique nature of this conflict and its significance as a theater in the larger war against terror has been lost. More...