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Lawrence D. Freedman

Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2008
Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2008
The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
May/June
2008
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
May/June
2008
The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
May/June
2008
Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History; The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War; The New American Way of War: Military Culture and the Political Utility of Force
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2008
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2008
Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2008
Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2008
Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2008
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2008
Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2008
Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2008
The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2008
Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime; Bioterrorism: Confronting a Complex Threat
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2008
Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2007
Five Day in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War; The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2007
Guernica and Total War
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2007
The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al Qaeda; Denial of Sanctuary: Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens; Brave New World: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization; What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2007
Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2007
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA; On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2007
Mafia Allies: The True Story of America's Secret Alliance With the Mob in World War II
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2007
Misfortunes of War: Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths in Wartime
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2007
Science, Strategy, and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
May/June
2007
Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA
Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review
May/June
2007
Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Lawrence D. Freedman
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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