Reviews

For reviews of Thomas Rid’s work, see “Books.”

2012
“The Powers that Be”
The Wilson Quarterly, Summer, review of William J. Dobson’s The Dictator’s Learning Curve. New York: Doubleday, 2012.

2010
“Military Orientalism” (.pdf)
Journal of Strategic Studies, 33: 5, p. 784-787, review of Patrick Porter’s, Military Orientalism: Eastern War Through Western Eyes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

“American Conspiracy” (.pdf)
The Wilson Quarterly, autumn, p. 98-100, review of Andrew Bacevich’s Washington Rules. America’s Path to Permanent War, Henry Holt, 2010.

“What the Prussians learned at the hands of Napoleon”
The Weekly Standard, 8 February, vol 15, no 20, review of Peter Paret’s The Cognitive Challenge of War. Prussia 1806. Princeton, 2009

2009
“The Winning Formula” (.pdf)
The Wilson Quarterly, autumn, p. 92-94, review of Mark Moyar’s A Question of Command. Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009

“Islam in Europe” (.pdf)
Policy Review, 156, p. 76-82, review of Christopher Caldwell’s Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West. New York: Doubleday, 2009

2007
“Tod in den Trümmern” (.pdf)
Internationale Politik, 2, p. 133-4, review of Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower. Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, New York: Knopf, 2006