Warriors and Scholars: A Modern War Reader

This series of thirteen articles on warfare. It is broken down into seven sections chronologically. The first two sections begin with World War II. One very interesting article is on the truman decision to drop the atomic bomb. He discusses what really happened, and then talks about the recent revisionist historians who question this decision. The final section in the book is on Terrorism. There are two articles in this section, one is on the 'Psychology of Terrorists and Terrorism.' The article is written by Dr. Norman Itzkowitz. He is the aurhor, co-author, editor or translator of eleven books on Near Eastern or Balkan subjects. His discussion covers several aspects on terrorism from the views of the europeans, comparisons with previous terrorist operations from the Romans on, describes the organizations terrorist have, and so on. The last article is on a comparison between the present war in Iraq with the US War in the Philippines beginning in 1899. These articles originally came from the University of North Texas's annual Military History Seminar.