Volume 49, Number 5 · March 28, 2002
War Without Risk?
By James Chace
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
by David Halberstam
Scribner, 543 pp., $28.00
David Halberstam's account of the policies and the wars that preceded the conflict in Afghanistan brings into sharp perspective the painful lessons of the post–cold war decade. If generals are said to be prepared to fight the last war, one can only hope that they have learned from their mistakes as they now try to eradicate terrorism from Afghanistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and who knows where else.
Review, 5960 words
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