Author Archives: Andrew J. Bacevich

‘Good Guys’ Make Bad Generals

How poor leadership loses wars for the U.S. military

Counterculture Conservatism

The right needs less Ayn Rand, more Flannery O’Connor

How We Became Israel

Peace means dominion for Netanyahu—and now for us.

Andrew J. Bacevich

At the very center of the town common here in Walpole, Massachusetts, …

No Exit

America has an impressive record of starting wars but a dismal one of ending them well.

No Exit

America has an impressive record of starting wars but a dismal one of ending them well.

These Colors Run Red

The U.S. follows the Soviet Union into Afghanistan.

To Die For a Mystique

The lessons our leaders didn’t learn from the Vietnam War

Appetite for Destruction

Never have so many shoppers owed so much …

Surging to Defeat

Petraeus’s strategy only postponed the inevitable.

The Right Choice?

The conservative case for Barack Obama

Sycophant Savior

General Petraeus wins a battle in Washington—if not in Baghdad.

Bushed Army

Our forces strain under a surge of new missions.

Going for Broke

Nothing so clearly reveals the impoverished state of American political discourse as …

On the Offense

No matter what the facts say, President Bush insists

The Islamic Way of War

Muslims have stopped fighting on Western terms—and have started winning.

Insecurity With Insolvency

The president’s National Security Strategy is vague on fiscal details and ignores geopolitical realities.

War in Error

Sending a general to do a sheriff’s job

Middle East Paradigm Shift

Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East, Leon Hadar, Palgrave Macmillan, 196 pages

Trigger Man

In Paul Wolfowitz, messianic vision meets faith in the efficacy of force.

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