Author Archives: Martin Sieff

From Kennan to Trotsky

How the United States became a superpower of the left

Markets First, Elections Later

Why democratization fails from Russia to Iraq

King of the Plastic Rambos

Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, Andrew Cockburn, Scribner, 247 pages

On War It’s Not

War Made New: War, Technology, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today, Max Boot, Gotham Books, 624 pages

Feeding the Guerillas

Think 20,000 more American troops in Baghdad will make Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi …

Party Pioneer

Al Smith, Barry Goldwater and … Howard Dean?

Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling on Iraq

Baghdad 2003, meet Belfast 1972.

That 1914 Feeling

The lights are going out, again.

Militarism & the Midterm Elections

White House strategists timed the Iraq war debate to dominate the fall Congressional campaign.