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While the Sandinistas may be winning the propaganda war in the U.S. media, they seem to be losing it on the scholarly front—two recent examples being Central America and the Reagan Doctrine (University Press of America/Boston University, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Md. 20706; $25.50 hardcover, $12.25 paperback), edited by Walter F. Hahn and with an introduction by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, and The Secret War in Central America: Sandinista Assault on World Order (University Publications of America, 44 North Market Street, Frederick, Md. 21701; $17.95), by John Norton Moore, who is Director of the Center for Law and National Security at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Central America and the Reagan Doctrine is a compilation of articles published originally in Strategic Review, the quarterly journal of the United States Strategic Institute, founded in Washington in 1972 by a group of military leaders and strategists alarmed by the defeatist attitudes engendered by the Vietnam War. The immediate focus of the volume at hand is the Soviet penetration of Central America and the Reagan Administration’s response.

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Chilton Williamson Jr.

While the Sandinistas may be winning the propaganda war in the U.S. media, they seem to be losing it on the scholarly front—two recent examples being Central America and the Reagan Doctrine (University Press of America/Boston University, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Md. 20706; $25.50 hardcover, $12.25 paperback), edited by Walter F. Hahn and with an introduction by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, and The Secret War in Central America: Sandinista Assault on World Order (University Publications of America, 44 North Market Street, Frederick, Md. 21701; $17.95), by John Norton Moore, who is Director of the Center for Law and National Security at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Central America and the Reagan Doctrine is a compilation of articles published originally in Strategic Review, the quarterly journal of the United States Strategic Institute, founded in Washington in 1972 by a group of military leaders and strategists alarmed by the defeatist attitudes engendered by the Vietnam War. The immediate focus of the volume at hand is the Soviet penetration of Central America and the Reagan Administration’s response.