Book Reviews

• White House Years, by Dr. Henry Kissinger. (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1979); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; (September 1980).

• Clausewitz and the State, by Peter Paret. (Oxford University Press, 1976); Marine Corps Gazette; (March 1981).

• Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul, by Michael Reed. (Yale University Press, 2007); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; vol. 134, no. 264 (June 2008).

• Pearl Harbor Countdown: Admiral James O. Richardson, by Skipper Steely. (Pelican Publishing, 2008); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; vol. 135, no. 275 (May 2009).

• Gallipoli, by Peter Hart. (Oxford University Press, 2011); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; vol. 138, no. 309 (March 2012).

• Soldiering On in a Dying War: The True Story of the Firebase Pace Incidents and the Vietnam Drawdown, by William J. Shkurti. (University Press of Kansas, 2011); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; vol. 137, no. 304 (October 2011).

• Killer Kane: A Marine Long-Range Recon Team Leader in Vietnam, 1967–1968, by Andrew R. Finlayson. (McFarland & Company, Ins., 2012); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; vol. 140/2/1,332 (February 2014).

• Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir, by Robert Timber. (New York: The Penguin Press, 2014). Blog site of The American Conservative under “Autobiography of a Recovery”; (July 28, 2014).

• Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir, by Robert Timber. (New York: The Penguin Press, 2014); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; vol. 140/8/1,338 (August 2014).

• Deadly Consequences: How Cowards are Pushing Women into Combat, by Robert L. Maginnis. (Washington, D. C: Regency Publishing, Inc., 2013); The U. S. Army War College Quarterly Parameters; vol. 44, no. 2, Summer 2014, under the title of “Women in Combat” with Anna Simons, PhD, and Anthony King, Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK.

“In Maginnis’s view, proponents of female integration into front-line combat units falsely conflate the sociocultural tropes of “gender neutrality” and the “lifting of gender barriers” with the indispensability of combat effectiveness.”

From Col. McKay’s review

• Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana, by William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh. (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Blog site of The American Conservative under “Cuba is a Diplomatic Cautionary Tale”;  (February 27, 2015).

• Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War, by John McCain and Mark Salter. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; vol 141/3/1,345 (April 2015).

• Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose. (New York: Random House, 2014). Blog site of The American Conservative under “What’s It Like To Be In Battle”; (October 8, 2015).

• Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose. (New York: Random House, 2014); United States Naval Institute Proceedings; vol.141/12/1, 354 (December 2015).

• The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power, by Jakub J. Grygiel and A. Wess Mitchell. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016). Blog site of The American Conservative under “The Case for Strong Alliances”; (February 23, 2016).

• The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, by Robert Gerwarth. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). Blog site of The American Conservative under “The Troubling Legacy of World War I”; (April 6, 2017).

• And the Sparrow Fell, by Robert J. Mrazek (Ithaca, New York: THREE HILLS an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017). Blog site of “The American Conservative” magazine under “Beyond Ken Burns, a Deeply Moral, Personal Vietnam”; (November 10, 2017).