Articles by Mackubin T. Owens
Choosing Defeat
Our defeat in Vietnam was the result of hesitancy and squeamishness about wartime tactics.
Our Herodotus
Robert Kaplan puts geography back in geopolitics.
The Vietnam War Revisited
Why the conventional history is wrong.
H.R. McMaster and the Loneliness of the Patriot
The charges against him are baseless.
Faithful and Honorable
William Tecumseh Sherman made Georgia howl.
General of the Lost Cause
How General Robert E. Lee accidentally saved the Constitution
Vietnam Revisited
A review of Vietnam: A History, by Stanley Karnow
For God and Country
A review of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, by Andrew Preston
The Fog of War
A review of The American Civil War: A Military History, by John Keegan
On the Warpath
A review of Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War, by Eliot A. Cohen
How the Confederates Won
The great tragedy of Civil War memory is that the emancipationist account of the war was sacrificed to reconciliation in alliance with white supremacy.
Commander-in-Chief
A review of Lincoln's wartime leadership.
Have Gun, Will Travel
The case for America's role as sheriff of the new world order.
Subjugation and Extermination
Lincoln set a high standard for leadership in time of war.
First in War
Could America have won its independence without Washington?
The Lost Cause In Retreat
In the age of so-called social history, those who can write military and political history in a clear, narrative style are treasures indeed.
Friends & Enemies
Waging Modern War, by retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, is a fascinating account of coalition warfare: NATO's 1999 war against Yugoslavia in Kososvo.
Freedom Fighters
Hanson's remarkable book argues that, on rare occasions, "there can be a soul, not merely a spirit, in the way men battle."