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The March to War

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The March to War is an interesting book given its format: basically a collection of editorials, newspaper articles, and other material printed around the time of the Gulf War. Much of it is interesting reading, but it is all open-source material, easily found outside this book. If you followed the newspapers during the Gulf War, much of this will not be new to you.

The chosen format is novel, but presents some difficulties. The fact that the pieces were written around the time of Desert Shield/Desert Storm means that it serves more as a day-to-day history of the two operations than any sort of insightful analysis. The format also robs it of any sort of continuity other than the organization of the pieces, and the lack of an index makes it a very frustrating book if you are looking for a specific piece of information.

Readers familiar with the major voices in international affairs, however, will be interested to see the coalition of people aligned against the war: it ranges from conservatives such as Kissinger to such liberals as Noam Chomsky. All in all, however, there are better books out on the Gulf War, and all of the information contained in this book could be found just as easily by going to your local library.