War coverage:
Knight Ridder's Joe Galloway has a fascinating look at the war situation so far and the contrast between Rumsfeld's hopes and combat reality. As a Vietnam-era survivor, I consider Galloway's (and Hal Moore's) We Were Soldiers Once....and Young to be one of the three or four best books about that war. The sidebars on this bio page link to Joe's biography, information about the book, movie and the battle of Ia Drang, and previous columns.