This fascinating book chronicles the guerilla war and reconstruction efforts to build a new and very different Iraq.

In Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (Yale University Press, 2008), newly retired U.S. Army colonel Peter R. Mansoor details his experience commanding troops in the wake of the fall of Baghdad at the dawn of the insurgency in Iraq. Colonel Mansoor, who served as a principal...

Who is representing the United States in today's tough fights in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere? What are their backgrounds? What motivates them? How exactly are they conducting themselves? Pulitzer-winning New York Times writer Chris Hedges says members of the U.S. armed forces are mostly "poor kids from Mississippi or Alabama...

Karl Zinsmeister follows his book Boots on the Ground with another volume detailing his experiences whileembeddedwith soldiers in Iraq.

Karl Zinsmeister is interviewed by Front Page Magazine on his three months in combat zones with American soldiers in Iraq.

France's great-gaming and obduracy may just block a U.N. mandate that would unleash more foreign soldiers on Iraqi soil.

It is unlikely that Iraqis will easily accept the authority of foreign troops--especially foreign Muslim troops.

Two recent books by experienced war correspondents tell important stories that call parts of the defense transformation program into question.