The National Book Award winner for fiction offers essays that help explain and bind our post-9/11 wounds.
Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas E. Ricks is the author of several books about the American military, including Fiasco, Making the Corps, and The
Generals. His next book, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968, will be published in October.
Posted inBooks, College Guide, Magazine, September/October 2021
SEAL of Disapproval
How the Navy failed to stop—and Donald Trump championed—a murderous special operations leader.
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Forgotten Warrior
Unknown outside the military, General William DePuy may have been the most influential soldier since World War II.
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Fight Club
bout eighteen months ago, the U.S. Army produced an important new manual on counterinsurgency that, when implemented last year in Iraq, helped American troops greatly improve the security situation there. Retired lieutenant colonel Nathan Sassamans recent memoir, Warrior King, is the mirror opposite of that documentit is, effectively, the anti-manual. And it should be required […]
