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    <updated_at>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:24:01 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's a great book. Simply put, it follows the Royal Welch Fusiliers from Lexington and Concord to Yorktown. It follows their engagements, their enlistment system, the purchasing of ranks, uniforms, etc. I think this is what military history really needs to do more of. Take a look at all the gaps tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38644944">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:13:23 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Chua's thesis that tolerance of minorities was a substantial factor in the endurance and success of empires is an important, and almost truly overlooked, point. She analyzes several empires to illustrate this point, including the Persian, Roman, Chinese, Mongol, Dutch, Spanish, British, American emp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38643783">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:41:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's a really comprehensive history of petroleum in the Black Sea region. I thought the first half of the book was more interesting than the second. It's unfortunate the topic was too large to place within a more geopolitical dimension, but this book was thick enough the way it was. I think Levine i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36220949">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:24:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Roger Crowley has written a very riveting tale of the competition in the Mediterranean between the Ottomans and the Christian nations of the Mediterranean periphery. However, the book really centers on the Siege of Malta and the Battle of Lepanto. For the military historian who love battle histories...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36220852">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1590223.Deterrence">Deterrence (Themes for the 21st Century)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/216104.Lawrence_Freedman">Lawrence Freedman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:52:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:35:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:50:29 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[CIA intelligence analyst Frank Snepp recounts his three year tour in South Vietnam, giving a particular emphasis to the final days of the collapse of South Vietnam. The parallels to Iraq have been made, but I don't think anyone can really understand the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of a force comp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6283150">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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