NY Times Military History Book Review Column

The New York Times has hired Tom Ricks to write occasional reviews on military history for its website. Here’s a link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/books/review/new-military-history-books.html .

Whatever you think of Rick’s work, his Twitter feed is fairly timely and always intriguing. Check him out at @tomricks1.

From the recent feed: “Nervous in the Service” on Trump’s foreign policy and what it portends for the military, and quite a few nuggets on Gen. Mattis. What he has to say about torture is pretty surprising and heartening (even if it’s couched in instrumental terms as a matter of “what will win/lose” a war, not what is moral/amoral).