Winter 2024

Any close analogy between “getting out” of Korea and American withdrawal from Vietnam, French withdrawal from Algeria, or British withdrawal from India necessarily fails, because in the sense implied by those cases, the United States has not gotten out of …

BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Jeremy Scahill Nation Books, 2007 464 pp $26.95 Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry P.W. Singer Cornell University Press, 2007 (first edition, …

U.S. Military Might and Myths

Adel Darwish is a London-based investigative journalist—a correspondent for the Independent and a regular contributor to the Economist—who has specialized in ferreting out European arms exports to Saddam Hussein. With “Gregory Alexander,” a pseudonymous British defense journalist, former army officer, …