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Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq Paperback – February 10, 2004

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In his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these challenging new essays, he examines the world’s ongoing war on terrorism, from America to Iraq, from Europe to Israel, and beyond.

In direct language, Hanson portrays an America making progress against Islamic fundamentalism but hampered by the self-hatred of elite academics at home and the cynical self-interest of allies abroad. He sees a new and urgent struggle of evil against good, one that can fail only if “we convince ourselves that our enemies fight because of something we, rather than they, did.”

Whether it’s a clear-cut defense of Israel as a secular democracy, a denunciation of how the U.N. undermines the U.S., a plea to drastically alter our alliance with Saudi Arabia, or a perception that postwar Iraq is reaching a dangerous tipping point, Hanson’s arguments have the shock of candor and the fire of conviction.

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282 pages
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English
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
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February 10, 2004
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5.14 x 0.64 x 8.01 inches
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0812972732
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978-0812972733
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Big Jim Slade

Insightful book

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023

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Another great Hanson read, lots of great information.

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NA Miles

a necessary fellow and imperative book

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2007

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It's odd that a compilation of essays written 4-5 years ago can still be so relevant with such powerful meaning. Enter VDH, and perhaps as a surprise to Eurabia and the American Left, enter the post 9-11 world.

Logical to the extreme, incredibly worded, accurate and essential, "Between War & Peace" should be required reading for every American college student----so don't hold your breath as the lefty fascists of academia will never allow such.

The negative reviewers, as always, like Josh, didn't read the book. Thus, like typical ignorant hatemongers, they have no clue and spew nonsense. We need MANY more folks like VDH, especially in academia. Military History, instead as part of a Cultural Marxist plan, is being phased out of colleges. Typical.

War is hell. Despite what the idiots on the left say, no one inherently likes war, but they are often necessary and keep pompous fools like Joshy safe and sound to live the wonderful, fre life America provides. Maybe someday they'll understand. Doubtful, though. Global Warming is more of his kind of faux battle.

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Robert Metzger

Dr Hanson and Iraq in Brief

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2018

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Dr Hanson provides very well researched synopses of the early heady times of our Iraq struggle. His descriptions are spot on and will stand up for years to come. I strongly recommend any work with his name on the title page.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2018

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Steve H.

It's Victor Davis Hanson telling it like it is with mastery of the writing

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2015

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What can you say? It's Victor Davis Hanson telling it like it is with mastery of the writing. Awesome read and for my fellow warriors out there, a must for your book shelf!

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randy blades

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Timeless Lessons for Today

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2008

A series of articles written in the early `00s, one might be tempted to think the pieces in BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE have been rendered outdated by subsequent events in Iraq and Afghanistan. That would, however, be reading the book too narrowly. Victor Davis Hanson, whatever you may think of his policy suggestions, is a well respected military historian who has taught at some of the U.S.' premiere universities, including the Naval Academy. Although the essays relate to this nation's present struggles, it approaches those struggles from the perspective of a long, long history. That is what makes the book worthwhile.

Yes, reading these essays today, it is easy to nitpick where VDH got it wrong. Like many commentators, he was right about the facility with which the American military took out Saddam Hussein, but missed the mark as to the difficult nature of the Islamic insurgency attempting to thwart the establishment of democratic values. And he seemed to underestimate just how far into the national psyche the raw sewage of pessimistic anti-Americanism, originating within the academy and broadcast to us via the media, would creep. I suppose some degree of realism prevents one from really recognizing, not how badly the elites want America to fail, but just how tenaciously they will try to achieve that failure through the fomentation of cultural and political decay.

Yet for the misses, there are more hits, broader in scope and of more lasting importance. VDH's analysis of European anti-Americanism and hypocrisy produces those `a-ha' moments, in which someone else puts into words that which you kind of knew but could not really articulate. The U.S. does, in fact, need to seriously re-evaluate its relationship with a culturally decayed Europe, remove its military bases there, and establish closer ties to those nations whose values more closely parallel our own. "Polite friendship - but no alliances," is a solid guide for whatever administration is soon to be elected and VDH's projections of America's best path forward, making U.S. power more flexible, would likely make us both more effective in reaching our goals while also removing the excuses for the petty resentments that so many others around the globe feel towards us, often as a way to evade their own problems.

VDH's take on the Middle East, and his moral support of Israel, is indeed a breath of fresh air compared to the nauseating anti-Semitism or, slightly more or less pathetic depending on one's perspective, the moral equivalency all to frequently heard from so-called intellectuals. The issues playing out in the Middle Eastern stage are the same ones Americans now face, they are just more easily recognizable due to the proximity of the actors.

Again, VDH is a military historian of some note. That makes this book more than just a period piece. In fact, I found this book not in the current events section of the bookstore, but in the history section. There is a reason for that. VDH brings history to the present and applies it to modern day conflicts. That approach will make BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE valuable long after the current struggles are over and won.

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Dianne Roberts

Modern History of the War on Terror

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2006

This is a strange, but ultimately good, book in two ways: First it is not so much a single book but a collection of essays arranged into topics and then arranged chronologically within each topic, and second it is a work of modern history and thus lacks the 20/20 vision of hindsight. This second quality however is what makes it so interesting, especially the further we get away from the time when each essay was written.

Hanson is a classics scholar and an outstandingly good military historian who views the world through a Thucydidean paradigm, namely, human nature is the same throughout all time and anything we're experiencing has basically been seen before in the history of warfare. This gives him a perspective unique from most of the scholars and pundits we see or hear on TV, as he makes frequent and salient comparison with modern events to similar events in ancient Greece.

The main argument of this book is that America and the West are not at fault for Arab and Islamic terrorism -their own internal forces cause terrorism-, that we must fight terrorism with resolve, and that we may only be victorious if we belive in our cause, and may only be defeated if we doubt ourselves. Unfortunately he showcases just how much Westerners, particularly the Left, do doubt oursevles and our civilization, and how this makes us vulnerable to the tactics of the terrorists.

Hanson tackles a lot of issues with a harsh clarity of thought and unapologetic conclusions, including: Anti-Americanism, Who are friends really are and who are enemies really are and why we don't treat them as such, The amount of duplicity and irrelevant -if not dangerous- ritual and senseless tradition in how we conduct our foreign policy and how we should do it differently, the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and similar such topics. He has some very interesting prescriptions for reshaping the American military and re-directing our foreign policy. Yet even should we follow his suggestions it seems implicit that so long as there is so much self-loathing and reluctance for the West to act in any manner the Left sees as slightly objectionable we are still doomed to never truly defeating terrorism, since defeat and victory are more intangible mental states than tangible physical realities.

Being a work of modern history however the book is replete with predictions that have failed to come true (as well as many that have), showing the difficulty of making sense of a situation in real-time, the effects a paradigm have on what you believe the situation is and what will happen, and the limits of a thorough knowledge of history. In the end you have to act however, in spite of the knowledge that you don't know what the consequences of your actions will be. Hanson is a historian unafraid to make decisions about what should be done, and by publishing his essays in a book format like this he shows he is also unafraid of exposing when events ultimately prove him wrong. An admirable trait in a world so enamored with self-image, delaying any decision or action with the blanket excuse of trying to add nuance, and rationalizing away any dirty laundry.

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