Suggested Readings

The following readings supplement those suggested in Chapter 12 of the text.

  • Atkinson, Rick. Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

  • Benjamin, Daniel, and Steven Simon. The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right. New York: Times Books, 2005.

  • Bobbit, Philip. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History. New York: Knopf, 2013.

  • Boot, Max. Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present. New York: Liveright, 2013.

  • Jeong, How Won. Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies: Strategy and Process. New York: Lynne Rienner, 2005.

  • Kiriakou, John. The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror. New York: Skyhorse, 2012.

  • Koblentz, Gregory D. Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.

  • Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. New York: Knopf-Doubleday, 2009.

  • Sanger, Mark. Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power. New York: Crown, 2012.

  • Singer, P.W. Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Penguin, 2009.

  • Siracusa, Joseph M. Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

  • Snow, Donald M. From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2009.

  • Weiss, T. Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action. New York: Wiley, 2012.

  • Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Intervention and the Making of Our Times. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.