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| | Bush’s Six-Pack |
 | | Almost all the leaders of that establishment were military men, some of them true heroes, and their contribution to their generation and to their country was to establish great peaceful institutions spanning the world that uniquely combined the political, the economic, and the social with the military only secondary in their plans. |
| | Mann gathers his subjects under this new (and, frankly, confusing) moniker of “Vulcan.” It seems that a statue of that particular Roman god of fire and metalworking overlooked Condoleezza Rice’s birthplace in Birmingham, Alabama, and somewhere along the way she and her colleagues adopted the term as a proof of their “tough-as-nailness.” |
| | There are many things one could say about this book, but what I found to be the most compelling storyline of Rise of the Vulcans is the degree to which some of these six, and especially all the others in the War Party around them, are consummate “irregulars” at heart, in thinking and in action. |
| www.amconmag.com /2004_06_07/review.html (1215 words) |
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