These recent-article mailings are posted at http://blog.historiansagainstwar.org. Suggestions for inclusion in the lists can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.

"The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175278

By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted July 29

The author teaches history and international relations at Boston University

"Obama's Legacy: Afghanistan"

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/jul/27/obamas-legacy-afghanistan/

By Garry Wills, New York Review of Books blog, posted July 27

The author is a professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University

"Imperial Overkill and the Death of U.S. Empire"

http://www.fpif.org/articles/imperial_overkill_and_the_death_of_us_empire

By Francis Shor, Foreign Policy in Focus, posted July 27

The author teaches history at Wayne State University

"Dan Ellsberg on WickiLeaks & the Essential Democratic Question: Who Will Tell the People?"

http://www.thenation.com/blog/37949/dan-ellsberg-wikileaks-essential-democratic-question-who-will-tell-people

By John Nichols, The Nation blog, posted July 26

"The Opposites Game: All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175277

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, posted July 26

Partly historical musings based on a little-noticed Washington Post story on the US military's purchase of Russian helicopters for use in Afghanistan