Adolf Eichmann: understanding evil in form and content.
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann by Harry Mulisch. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Forty-four years after his execution, the "man in the glass booth" reappeared on the world stage. In early June 2006, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released previously classified documents detailing...

War with Iran is not the answer.
IT APPEARS INCREASINGLY likely that the Bush Administration's diplomatic approach to Iran will tail to prevent that country from going nuclear, and that the U.S. will have to decide whether to use military force to attempt to delay Iron's acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability. Some analysts already have...

The EU as a peace building system: deconstructing nationalism in an era of globalization.
Abstract It is surprising that in the field of International Peace and Conflict Studies, little attention is given to the European Union (EU). This article explores the EU's evolution and polity from the vantage point of its relevance and contribution to international peace, democracy and security. The...

Scars of war.
"SUPPRESS IT!" Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman reportedly told the Ohio State Fair in 1880, referring to his experience during the Civil War, the first American conflict to be heavily photographed. "You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I tell you, war is hell!" Former Marine Sgt....

General Jacob Edward Smart 1909-2006.
General Jacob Edward Smart, 97, died on November 12, 2006, in Ridgeland, South Carolina, in the house in which he was born. A top strategist, tactician, planner, and air commander during World War II, General Smart worked closely with General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces...

Eddie Rickenbacker. An American Hero in the Twentieth Century.
Eddie Rickenbacker. An American Hero in the Twentieth Century. By W. David Lewis. Baltimore Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 669. $35.00. ISBN: 0-8018-8244-3. The combat heroics of World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker are well-known to most military historians,...

Fire fight: only after America leaves Iraq can the conflagration we started be brought under control.
[Editor's Note: This is the second installment of a two-part essay. The first, entitled "Open Fire," appeared in our last issue and is available at www.amconmag.com/2007_09_24/feature.html] THE FIRST HALF OF THIS ESSAY had one central message: the war in Iraq did not go wrong, a spectacular military...

Doomsday always sells: a military expert tells tall tales to hook readers on foreign policy.
Whose War is it? How Canada Can Survive in the Post-9/11 World J.L. Granatstein HarperCollins 246 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780002008457 Professor Granatstein is an authority on military affairs, a prolific author and one of the band of senior academics who provide intellectual support to the Conservative party...

The Iraq Accountability Project: A Wrap-Up of This Week's Senate Oversight on Iraq.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a release from the Office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: As the 110th Congress moves forward, the Senate will continue to exercise its constitutionally mandated oversight role. The Senate hearings on Iraq this week demonstrate why congressional oversight is...

Theories of conflict and the Iraq war.
Abstract The article examines the U.S. decision to invade Iraq from a range of analytic perspectives--realism, liberalism, elite interests, ideological influences, and personal and social psychology--in order to better understand the causes of the invasion decision and implications of the particular case study for general theories of...