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is alternately fascinating and dry. It offers insightful
examinations into a little known topic, but occasionally
reads like an academic text.
With America’s national strategy pivoting back
to the Pacific, the timely Brothers in Arms will interest students of national security policy, China, and
Southeast Asian history. Given our own recent challenges with foreign aid programs, this book offers the
opportunity for reflection on just what foreign aid buys
us.
Col. John M. Sullivan Jr., U.S. Marine Corps,
Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

POLICING WARS:
On Military Intervention in the
Twenty-First Century
Caroline Holmqvist, Palgrave Macmillan,
Basingstoke-Hampshire, England, 2014, 176 pages,
$90.00

I

n Policing Wars, Caroline Holmqvist’s print
version of her doctrinal thesis, she describes the
thought processes that many of our contemporary leaders, and those that comment on them, have
toward the use of the military as an agent of international change. The book discusses neither the conduct
of policing wars, nor the politics that lead toward the
use of armed forces for those actions, bu Ё