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Jun 27, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Jim Kelly |Thomas Ricks |Mike Rapport
Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast by Thomas E. Ricks The author is a first-rate military historian (his best-known book is Fiasco, a history of the early days of the Iraq War), and his first crime novel reflects the skills of a terrific storyteller with a keen eye for both character and plot.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Thomas Ricks
Maine is an unusual state, with a distinct identity and, in rural areas, a culture that remains distinctly pre-industrial. It borders more Canadian provinces than it does states; it is the only mainland state with just one interstate highway; it is the only state crossed by the national railroad of another country; and, under treaties that date back to colonial times, it reserves seats in its legislature for Native American tribes.
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May 19, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Thomas Ricks
As we approach this November's presidential election, "blood bath" is quickly becoming one of Donald Trump's favorite new terms. If he does not take the White House, there will be a "blood bath" in the auto industry. President Biden's immigration policies are causing a "blood bath" at the U.S. border with Mexico. In some corners, this imagery is understood as a threat: What will Trump supporters do if their favored candidate does not win?
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Thomas Ricks |Isaac S. Villegas |Amy Frykholm |Benjamin Dueholm
In Waging a Good War, Thomas Ricks offers a novel interpretation of the civil rights movement as a kind of war—a series of campaigns on carefully chosen ground that eventually led to victory. Ricks, who has written books about World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, now brings his experience as a war correspondent in Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq to bear on his analysis of the strategy and tactics of the civil rights movement.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Thomas Ricks
Book Review|Why Is the Reputation of the U.S. Military Going South So Fast? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/books/review/good-and-bad-in-military-history-new-books.htmlMilitary HistoryRepublicans are worried about the politics that shape our armed forces. Several recent books look at the good, the bad and the ugly of American military leadership and culture. U.S. service members practicing meditation during a mindfulness training class.Credit...Grant Hindsley for The New York TimesThomas E.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | H. R. McMaster |Thomas Ricks |Jack Keane |Dave Seminara
Quotes of the Day:“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose free will. - Rush“Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn the liberating beauty of the intellect for your own personal joy and for the profit of the community to which your later work will belong." - Albert Einstein“An arrogant person considers himself perfect.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
shorturl.at | Thomas Ricks
Book Review|Reading the Tea Leaves on the End of the War in Ukrainehttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/books/review/russia-ukraine-war-new-books.htmlMilitary HistoryIn several recent books, experts on Russia and Ukraine weigh the importance of the Wagner Group and try to predict how Putin’s invasion will play out. The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in February last year has led to the biggest war in Europe in many generations.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Thomas Ricks
Book Review|Reading the Tea Leaves on the End of the War in Ukrainehttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/books/review/russia-ukraine-war-new-books.htmlMilitary HistoryIn several recent books, experts on Russia and Ukraine weigh the importance of the Wagner Group and try to predict how Putin’s invasion will play out.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Thomas Ricks
Military historians have long taught that how a society fights is linked to how it produces. In most agrarian cultures, the horse was the basic unit of power. Indeed, the Mongols, the military superpower of the Middle Ages, as it is put by Stephen Morillo, the author of WAR AND CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE AGES (Polity, 257 pp., paperback, $26.95), may have controlled more than half the horses on the planet.
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Mar 19, 2023 | 
timothynoah.substack.com | Thomas Ricks
With the twentieth anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq coming up, you may see Bush Administration veterans and even othersarguing that it was all worthwhile after all, and that American motives were honorable. When you see such assertions, here are four questions to keep in mind:How many Iraqis died? (They won’t know.) How many Americans, including contractors, died? (Ditto.) How did the invasion strengthen Iran and how will that change the region?
