Volume 51, Number 14 · September 23, 2004
The Good General
By Brian Urquhart
Battle Ready
by Tom Clancy, with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz
Putnam, 450 pp., $28.95
You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building
by Simon Chesterman
Oxford University Press, 296 pp., $95.00
In the twentieth century war was pronounced, belatedly, to be too important to be left to the generals; in the twenty-first century peace, prosperity, and security have already turned out to be much too complex to be left to the politicians. In a dangerous, high-speed, information-logged, globalized world, disastrously divided between the prosperous and the impoverished, the old distinctions between war and peace, civil and military, national and international, private and public, have become increasingly blurred.
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