Further Reading


  • Alexander, Yonah, and Dan Musch, eds.Terrorism and Homeland Security. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
  • Ali, Tariq.Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq. New York: Verso, 2003.
  • Allard, Carl Kenneth.Somalia Operations: Lessons Learned. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1995.
  • Anderson, Jon Lee.The Fall of Baghdad. New York: Penguin, 2004.
  • Arnett, Peter.Live from the Battlefield. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
  • Atkinson, Rick.Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
  • Bamford, James.A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies. New York: Random House, 2004.
  • Beck, Sara, and Malcolm Downing, eds.The Battle for Iraq: BBC News Correspondents on the War Against Saddam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
  • Blix, Hans.Disarming Iraq. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.
  • Boyne, Walter.Operation Iraqi Freedom: What Went Right, What Went Wrong, and Why. New York: Tor Books, 2003.
  • Bresnahan, David M.9–11 Terror in America. n.p.: Windsor House, 2001.
  • Casper, Lawrence E.Falcon Brigade: Combat and Command in Somalia and Haiti. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2001.
  • Christy, Joe.American Aviation: An Illustrated History. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1987.
  • Clark, Ramsey.The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1992.
  • Clarke, Richard A.Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. New York: Free Press, 2004.
  • Clarke, Victoria. “The Pentagon and the Press.” InThe Media and the War on Terrorism, edited by Stephen Hess and Marvin Kalb. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
  • ____________, et al. “Three Months Later.” InThe Media and the War on Terrorism, edited by Stephen Hess and Marvin Kalb.
  • Cohen, Roger, and Claudio Gatti.In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwartzkopf. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991.
  • Coll, Steve.Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
  • Cooksley, Peter G., and Bruce Robertson.Air Warfare: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Conflict. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1998.
  • Cordesman, Anthony.Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons. Washington, D.C.: CSIS Press, 2003.
  • Cornum, Rhonda, as told to Peter Copeland.She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1992.
  • Daalder, Ivo H., and Michael E. O’Hanlon.Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000.
  • Danchev, Alex, and Dan Keohane, eds.International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict, 1990–1991. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
  • Davis, John, ed.The Global War on Terrorism: Assessing the American Response. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, 2004.
  • DiPrizio, Robert C.Armed Humanitarians: U.S. Interventions from Northern Iraq to Kosovo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  • Donald, David, ed.The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997.
  • Elshtein, Jean Bethke.Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
  • Emerson, Gloria, et al.9/11/01: The Collected “Portraits of Grief” from The New York Times. New York: New York Times Books, 2002.
  • Emerson, Steven.American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us. New York: Free Press, 2002.
  • Engel, Richard.A Fist in the Hornet’s Nest: On the Ground Before, During, and After the War. New York: Hyperion, 2004.
  • Feldman, Noah.What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.
  • Francke, Linda Bird.Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
  • Freedman, Lawrence, and Efraim Karsh.The Gulf Conflict, 1990–1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Friedman, Thomas L.Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002.
  • Fromkin, David.Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkan Battlefields. New York: Free Press, 1999.
  • Gunaratna, Rohan.Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
  • Haass, Richard.Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World. Rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.
  • Hamza, Khidhir, with Jeff Stein.Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda. New York: Scribner, 2000.
  • Heikal, Mohammed Hassanein.Illusions of Triumph: An Arab View of the Gulf War. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
  • Hersh, Seymour.Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.
  • Hilsman, Roger.George Bush vs. Saddam Hussein: Military Success! Political Failure? Novato, Calif.: Lyford Books, 1992.
  • Hiro, Dilip.Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War. New York: Routledge, 1992.
  • Hirsch, John L.Somalia and Operation Restore Hope: Reflections on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1995.
  • Holden, Henry M., with Lori Griffith.Ladybirds: The Untold Story of Women Pilots in America. Freedom, N.J.: Black Hawk, 1991.
  • Holm, Jeanne.Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1982.
  • Honig, Jan Willem, and Norbert Both.Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
  • Huntington, Samuel P.The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.
  • Hutchison, Kevin.Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Chronology and Factbook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
  • Ignatieff, Michael.Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond. New York: Henry Holt, 2000.
  • Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 2004.
  • Keaney, Thomas A., and Eliot A. Cohen.Revolution in Warfare? Air Power in the Persian Gulf. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
  • Keegan, John.The Iraq War. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2004.
  • Khadduri, Majid, and Edmund Ghareeb.War in the Gulf, 1990–1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Lahneman, William J.Military Intervention: Cases in Context for the Twenty-first Century. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
  • Lyons, Terrence, and Ahmed I. Samatar.Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1995.
  • MacArthur, John R.Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War. Updated ed. Foreword by Ben H. Bagdikian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
  • Mackey, Chris.The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda. New York: Little Brown, 2004.
  • Mann, Michael.Incoherent Empire. New York: Verso, 2003.
  • Mermin, Jonathan.Debating War and Peace: Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.
  • Mills, Kay.From Pocahontas to Power Suits: Everything You Need to Know About Women’s History in America. New York: Plume, 1995.
  • Moore, James.Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
  • Moore, Molly.A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.
  • Moore, Robin.Hunting Down Saddam: The Inside Story of the Search and Capture. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
  • Morris, David J.Storm on the Horizon: Khafji–the Battle That Changed the Course of the Gulf War. New York: Free Press, 2004.
  • Murray, Williamson.Air War in the Persian Gulf. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1995.
  • Murray, Williamson, and Robert H. Scales, Jr.The Iraq War: A Military History. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
  • National Commission on Terrorist Attacks.The 9/11 Commission Report. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
  • Newhouse, John.Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order. New York: Knopf, 2003.
  • Picciotto, Richard, with Daniel Paisner.Last Man Down: A Firefighter’s Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center. New York: Berkley Books, 2002.
  • Price, Alfred.Sky Battles: Dramatic Air Warfare Battles. Dulles, Va.: Continuum, 1999.
  • Randolph, Laura B. “The Untold Story of Black Women in the Gulf War.”Ebony 46 (September, 1991): 100–106.
  • Robinson, Linda.Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces. New York: Public Affairs, 2004.
  • Schecter, Danny.Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
  • Schwartzkopf, H. Norman.It Doesn’t Take a Hero. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
  • Sharkey, Jacqueline.Under Fire: U.S. Military Restrictions on the Media from Grenada to the Persian Gulf. Washington, D.C.: Center for Public Integrity, 1991.
  • Stevenson, Jonathan.Losing Mogadishu: Testing U.S. Policy in Somalia. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
  • Sudetic, Chuck.Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.
  • Swofford, Anthony.Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. New York: Scribner, 2003.
  • U.S. News & World Report.Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War. New York: Times Books, 1992.
  • Voices of War: Stories of Service from the Homefront and the Frontlines. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2004.
  • Von Hippel, Karin.Democracy by Force: U.S. Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • West, Bing, and Ray L. Smith.The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the First Marine Division. New York: Bantam Books, 2003.
  • Weiss, Thomas G.Military-Civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect. 2d ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
  • Woodward, Bob.Bush at War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
  • ____________.Plan of Attack. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
  • Zinsmeister, Karl.Boots on the Ground: A Month with the Eighty-second Airborne in the Battle for Iraq. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003.
  • Zucchino, David.Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. Foreword by Mark Bowden. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.