Mary R. Habeck (SAIS): The Jihadist Laws of War. A review of Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism by Jennifer Ang Mei Sze. From the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Christian K. Hojbjerg (Aarhus): Root Causes: The Inversion of Causes and Consequences in Civil War; and a special issue on civil war and conflicts. From Bazookas to RPGS: Since World War II, shaped charges have transformed warfare, and scientists still struggle to understand the nature of their deadly effectiveness. A review of Clausewitz's On War: A Biography by Hew Strachan. A review of Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History by John David Lewis. A look at 5 true war stories that put every action movie to shame. An article on the "urban legend" of civilian casualty rates in war. How much of our identities come from the “enemy” against which we define ourselves? From Ethics and International Affairs, a review of Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition and the Right to War in the Twenty-First Century by Cian O’Driscoll; and a review of Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification. Since the second world war, the use of rape as a weapon of war has assumed strategic importance, and is now a deliberate military strategy. A review of The American Way of War by Tom Engelhardt. Janine Armin reviews Pure War by Paul Virilio and Sylvere Lotringer. From The National Interest, a review of David J. Kilcullen's Counterinsurgency, Ted Morgan's Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War, and Megan K. Stack's Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War. A review of Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church Rather than the State by Daniel M. Bell Jr.
