INTEL WARS The secret history of the fight against terror. By Matthew M Aid, Bloomsbury Press, 262pp Reviewed: 31 March 2012 If intelligence is the trump card of modern warfare, the United States ought to prevail in every conflict. This…
INTEL WARS The secret history of the fight against terror. By Matthew M Aid, Bloomsbury Press, 262pp Reviewed: 31 March 2012 If intelligence is the trump card of modern warfare, the United States ought to prevail in every conflict. This…
AN UNWINNABLE WAR: Australia in Afghanistan. By Karen Middleton Melbourne University Press, 382pp. Reviewed: 1 October 2011 In tracing the politics of Australia’s military involvement in Afghanistan, this book says more about Australia than about Afghanistan. From John Howard’s emotional…
THE AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT AND AUSTRALIA’S ROLE . Edited by Amin Saikal. Melbourne University Press. 210pp. Reviewed: 30 July 2011 Why are Australians fighting, killing and dying in Afghanistan? Surveys of Australian opinion suggest a confusion that crosses party lines, just…
CABLES FROM KABUL The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign. By Sherard Cowper-Coles. Harper Press.312pp. INFERNAL TRIANGLE Conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and The Levant – Eyewitness reports from the September 11 decade. By Paul McGeough. Allen and Unwin. 338pp.…
EVERY MAN IN THIS VILLAGE IS A LIAR An Education in War by Megan Stack Scribe, 255pp. Reviewed: 11 September, 2010 A good foreign correspondent grasps the perspective of the foreign situation without losing the perspective of home. Some good…