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Photo Fakery: The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and Manipulation byDino A. BrugioniReview by: Eliot A. CohenForeign Affairs, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 2000), p. 152Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20049840 .
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Recent Books
Military, Scientific, and Technological
ELIOT A. COHEN
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and
the Fate of Empire in British North
America, 1754-1766. by fred
Anderson. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2000, 862 pp. $40.00. This fascinating account of the war that
paved the way for American independence and the transformation of the British
Empire is all the more remarkable given its competition. The Seven Years' War (or the French and Indian War) has already attracted the attention of great historians
such as Francis Parkman and Lawrence
Henry Gipson. Now Anderson has pro duced a work that is in some respects
superior to theirs?and not only by virtue
of its access to the most recent scholarship. His subtle and engrossing narrative deals
with two strategic issues of enduring inter
est: the interaction of mutually miscom
prehending military cultures (American,
British, French, Canadian, and Indian), and the way in which the exercise of force
has profound consequences beyond the
foresight of political leaders and generals. His ability to empathize with his charac
ters, while neither romanticizing them nor magnifying their
significance, is one of this
exceptional work's
many virtues. As with
any great historical
work, this book is
not a mere chronicle
but a study in
statecraft.
Photo Fakery: The History and Techniques of
Photographic Deception and Manipulation. by dino a. brugioni. Washington:
Brassey's, 1999, 227 pp. $29.95.
Photographs constitute a major source of
information about international affairs.
This fascinating book, written by one
of the founders of the cia's National
Photographic Interpretation Center, is
a primer on how purveyors ofthat infor
mation manipulate or falsify it. Brugioni also unveils some of the techniques for
detecting photo fraud, using a rich array of examples from the Cold War. In fact, this amply illustrated and amusing book's
implications are rather somber: the advent
of increasingly sophisticated and inexpen sive computer tools for photo fakery
means that even the experts will find
themselves fooled.
The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can
Americas Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? by Stephanie
gutmann. New York: Scribner,
2000, 283 pp. $25.00. The author's answer is, probably not.
A journalist who (as she confesses) had
little contact with the military growing
up, Gutmann is alarmed by what she
believes gender integration has done to
the military. She sees the Navy, for example, as a "feminized, specifically
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