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Bolger, Daniel P. Savage Peace: Americans at War in the 1990s. Novato, Calif: Presidio, 1995. 420pp. $24.95
With the ascendance of the United Nations in the aftermath of the Cold War, Daniel P. Bolger's Savage Peace is a timely work, addressing the evolution of contemporary peacekeeping and security operations. According to Bolger, war is hell, but so is winning the peace. His treatment of operations other than war (OOTW) is an informative account of American involvement in a risky and perpetually ill-defined area of armed intervention. A serving Army infantry officer, Bolger writes from an insider's viewpoint about the military's attempt to grapple with this amorphous phenomenon. He measures the personal costs in resources-time, money, and lives. Essentially, it is a soldier's story.
The best parts of Bolger's work are his case studies. The human tragedy...