Fred Kaplan's Books
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The InsurgentsThe inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who—against fierce resistance from within their own ranks—changed the way the...Read More
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Advertiser Democrat, April 18, 2013
...Lessons;” Brian Hare, “The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs are Smarter than You Think;” Cissy Houston, “Remembering Whitney;” Fred Kaplan, “The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War;” Paul Kennedy, “Engineers...
Bloomberg, February 25, 2013
...popular “Macbeth.” Abraham Lincoln was renowned for his love of Shakespeare. “Richard III” was a particular favorite, biographer Fred Kaplan says, because of its message about the dangers of ambition. And Francis Bicknell Carpenter, in his 1866...
Atlantic Monthly, February 22, 2013
...new issue of The American Prospect, available online now (but subscribe !), I have a long review of Fred Kaplan's book The Insurgents . Short version: this is a good and important book that you should read. Medium version: see the review itself. ...
New York Review of Books, February 14, 2013
...and Greg Jaffe, published a few years ago; and the new books by Paula Broadwell, All In, and Fred Kaplan, The Insurgents. His education began when he asked about a portrait of a French military officer on the wall of a French army mess hall in the...
Delaware Online, February 12, 2013
...of 3)Abraham Lincoln was renowned for his love of Shakespeare. Richard III was a particular favorite, biographer Fred Kaplan says, because of its message about the dangers of ambition. And Francis Bicknell Carpenter, in his 1866 volume Six Months at the...
New York Times, January 24, 2013
...is no one better equipped to tell the story of those ideas and their often hair-raising consequences than Fred Kaplan, a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter. Kaplan writes Slates War Stories column, a must-read in security...
Tacoma News Tribune, January 23, 2013
..."The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War" by Fred Kaplan; Simon & Schuster (400 pages, $28) Everyone knows - or thinks they know - about the influence exerted by the military-industrial complex on American foreign...
Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2013
...Afghanistan. That, at least, is the thesis of a serious and insightful new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Fred Kaplan: "The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War." In telling detail, Kaplan explains how...
Yahoo! News, January 17, 2013
...crisis in Algeria There is indeed "something of an 'Obama doctrine' for these sorts of conflicts," says Fred Kaplan at Slate. The president "acknowledges the war on terror" — the need to "kill or capture certain bad guys, the importance of dismantling...
BBC, January 17, 2013
...what was previously called the war on terror going forward. In the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Fred Kaplan suggests the military and Obama administration have all but abandoned counter-insurgency (Coin). It would be interesting to hear...
Foreign Policy Magazine, January 17, 2013
...last smart general in the U.S. military? A few days after the Petraeus scandal broke in November, Fred Kaplan's excellent new book, The Insurgents Looking at that book jacket, my first thought was a frivolous one: Huh, I bet Fred -- until recently a...
Newsday, January 17, 2013
...by FRED KAPLAN, Slate Insurgents allied with al-Qaida mount an assault on southern Mali. The French send troops and launch air strikes to stave off the attack. Islamist militants seize a foreign-owned...
Wichita Eagle, January 16, 2013
...If there were any doubts, President Obama’s press conference last week with Afghan President Hamid Karzai should dispel them: We are so out of there, at least as a full-bore fighting force, and sooner than previously scheduled. NATO had planned, with...
RoadRunner, January 16, 2013
...If there were any doubts, President Obama’s press conference last week with Afghan President Hamid Karzai should dispel them: We are so out of there, at least as a full-bore fighting force, and sooner than previously scheduled. NATO had planned, with...
