Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the US Military Academy, he received his Ph.D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton University. Bacevich is also the author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East. His most recent book is The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.
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February 14, 2015Military historian Andrew Bacevich says it's time for lawmakers to take the long view of our military campaign in the Middle East.
January 30, 2015Those in the upper ranks of the Obama administration have an outdated worldview, shaped by memories of Munich and Yalta, Korea and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Wall.
November 24, 2014Five bedrock assumptions that are warping American policy in the Middle East.
June 20, 2014Andrew Bacevich asserts that the "impoverished state of US foreign-policy discourse is laid bare" in a recent New Republic essay by historian Robert Kagan.
January 14, 2014Andrew Bacevich writes that the United States no longer knows how to win wars, but it continues to start them.
September 9, 2013The real issue for Congress is whether or not to continue relying on "military might as the preferred means of advancing U.S. interests" in the Middle East.
September 6, 2013 | Updated September 11, 2013In his forthcoming book, Andrew Bacevich reflects on a fourth of July celebration at a Red Sox game and what it tells us about the way Americans symbolically honor their troops.
August 26, 2013Military historian Andrew Bacevich has several questions he'd like the president to answer before taking military action in Syria.
May 28, 2013Andrew Bacevich says wars need names, and in the absence of one now, proposes names that might actually explain what’s going on.
May 29, 2012Secret forces are becoming more autonomous and less accountable, and are taking on more missions than ever before.
