February 2004    Each month a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Lawrence Freedman gives his picks for the best books on science, technology, and the military.

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges
New York: PublicAffairs, 2002
Read March/April 2003 review

Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects
David Shambaugh
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003
Read May/June 2003 review

Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism
Philip Jenkins
New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2003
Read September/October 2003 review

The Iraq War: A Military History
Williamson Murray and Robert H. Scales Jr.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003
Read January/February 2004 review

Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939
Mary Habeck
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003
Read November/December 2003 review

The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and Japanese Occupation
Philip Snow
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003
Read November/December 2003 review

The Year in Books Index

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