Cicero Archive

 

The reviews (and one essay) listed below originally appeared in CiceroMagazine.com, an online publication that is no longer available on the web.

 

 

A Double Dose of Reality on “Homegrown Terrorism,” March 2, 2016

Review of  Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone, by Scott Shane, and The United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists, By Peter Bergen

 

How Wars Are Fought Again in Memory, April 20, 2016

Review of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen

 

Two Sides of the Vietnam War and its Personal Costs, May 18, 2015

Review of The Sympathizer  by Viet Thanh Nguyen and The Price They Paid: Enduring Wounds of War by Michael Putzel

 

Can Corruption Lose Wars? February 19, 2015

 

Islam’s Clash of Beliefs, As Seen From Modern Iran, February 3, 2015

Review of The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran by Nazila Fathi

 

A New and Personal Narrative of Who Lost Vietnam, Nov. 12, 2014

Review of Uphill Battle: Reflections on Viet Nam Counterinsurgency, by Frank Scotton

 

Voices of Pashtun Women from Wartime Afghanistan, July 16, 2014

Review of I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, translated by Eliza Griswold

 

War•Time, Aug. 4, 2014

Review of War•Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, By Mary L. Dudziak

The Iraqis We Left Behind: A Book Review, June 10, 2014

Review of To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind, by Kirk W. Johnson