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Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire. By General Wesley K. Clark. New York: Public Affairs, 2004. ISBN 1-58648-2777. Map. Appendix. Notes. Index. Pp. xviii, 220. $15.
There is little as ephemeral these days as instant war books by network consultants, unless it is campaign books by defeated presidential candidates. Winning Modern Wars is half the first and half the second. The first half of the book, precisely, is the story of the first phase of the war in Iraq as it appeared from the consultant's chair at CNN occupied by, among others, General (Retired) Wesley Clark, former SACEUR during the NATO war with Serbia and the subsequent occupation of Kosovo, and the only member of the West Point class of 1966 to have won a state (Oklahoma) in a Democratic presidential primary election....