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Soft Power, Hard Returns

A Daring Enterprise

Soft Power, Hard Returns

BOOK REVIEW: A Daring Enterprise: A US-Egyptian Partnership and The Case for Soft PowerBy James A. Harmon, Cornelius Queen, and Mark Warren/The [...] More

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Rally the Rimlands

Breaking The Axis

Rally the Rimlands

Book Review Breaking the New Axis: A Grand Strategy for EurasiaBy Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem/ Naval Institute PressReviewed by: Michael J. ArdThe [...] More

Raddatz Gives Voice to Those Who Served

The Hero Next Door

Raddatz Gives Voice to Those Who Served

BOOK REVIEW: The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and PurposeBy Martha Raddatz | Avid Reader Press/Simon & SchusterReviewed by Heidi Vierow, [...] More

The Long Reach Of Old Wars

The Expediter

The Long Reach Of Old Wars

BOOK REVIEW: THE EXPEDITERBy Kenneth Dekleva Reviewed by: Bill HarlowThe Reviewer — Bill Harlow served as chief spokesman for the CIA from 1997 to [...] More

Great Powers Are Back … Yet Again

The Return of the Great Powers

Great Powers Are Back … Yet Again

BOOK REVIEW: The Return of Great PowersBy Brendan Simms | Basic BooksREVIEWER: Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada. The [...] More

Five Traitors, One Last Book Please

Stalin's Apostles

Five Traitors, One Last Book Please

BOOK REVIEW: Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet EmpireBy Antonia Senior/ Public AffairsReviewed by: Nick FishwickThe [...] More

War, Climate, and AI Collide in "2084"

2084 (A Novel of Future War)

War, Climate, and AI Collide in "2084"

BOOK REVIEW: 2084: A Novel of the Climate WarBy Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis, USN / Penguin PressREVIEWED BY: Joe ZacksTHE REVIEWER: [...] More

Guns Don’t Kill People…And Neither Do Robots (Yet).

Project Maven

Guns Don’t Kill People…And Neither Do Robots (Yet).

By Katrina Manson / W.W.Norton & CompanyReviewed by: Neal A. Pollard The Reviewer – Neal A. Pollard is a partner at Control Risks Group and was the [...] More

The Admiral Behind Chinese Naval Modernization

China's Mahan

The Admiral Behind Chinese Naval Modernization

Book Review: China’s Mahan: Admiral Liu Huaqing and the Rise of the Modern Chinese Navy by Xiaobing Li (Naval Institute Press, 2026).The Reviewer [...] More

Pope Leo XIV: A Citizen of the World

Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV: A Citizen of the World

BOOK REVIEW: Pope Leo XIV: The BiographyBy Elise Ann Allen/Penguin Random House Christian/ImageReviewed by: Kenneth DeklevaThe Reviewer — Dr. Kenneth [...] More

Bill Rapp’s Prague Spring: Cold War Redux

The Prague Spring

Bill Rapp’s Prague Spring: Cold War Redux

Book Review: The Prague SpringBy Bill Rapp/Coffeetown PressReviewed by Kenneth DeklevaThe Reviewer — Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical [...] More

From Kabul to the French Quarter

The Fourth Option

From Kabul to the French Quarter

BOOK REVIEW: THE FOURTH OPTIONBy JACK CARR AND M.P. WOODWARD / ATRIA/EMILY BESTLER BOOKSReviewed by: Susan GorgioskiThe Reviewer — Susan Gorgioski is [...] More

From Apex Political Predator to Symbolic War Criminal

Tojo: The Rise and Fall

From Apex Political Predator to Symbolic War Criminal

BOOK REVIEW: Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II GeneralPeter Mauch / Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University [...] More