They present such an alluring image of the no-pain, all-gain battlefield and are undoubtedly a relief for many Americans, distinctly tired -- so the polls also tell us -- of wars that aren’t covert and don’t work. So who even notices that, as Andrew...

Scary! That’s why I, for one, am glad that The Philadelphia Society does not have on the program any of those so-called “nonpartisan,” “thinking” conservatives who have written so much on this topic, like John Lukacs, or Andrew Bacevich, or Richard...

With the United States now well into the second decade of what the Pentagon has styled an “era of persistent conflict,” the war formerly known as the global war on terrorism (unofficial acronym WFKATGWOT) appears increasingly fragmented and diffuse. ...

Bacevich,one of the most important and prolific critics of current American military policy, has a post today on the nature of the current war era at TomDispatch and HNN. He begins: With the United States now well into the second decade of what the...

They present such an alluring image of the no-pain, all-gain battlefield and are undoubtedly a relief for many Americans, distinctly tired -- so the polls also tell us -- of wars that aren’t covert and don’t work. So who even notices that, as Andrew...

In the coming weeks, expect new posts from Andrew Bacevich, Rebecca Solnit, Michael Klare, Nick Turse, Karen J. Greenberg, and other TomDispatch regulars as well as surprising new authors. Though this site works on the cheap, it unfortunately does take...

Conventional Wisdomites sigh and roll their eyes every time the likes of Andrew Bacevich give another talk about America’s global ambitions and the wrecking of Constitutional restraints in presidential war powers. Respectable foreign policy journals and...

Questionable Accommodations David O’Brien laments that Andrew Bacevich “has unfortunately accepted from theologian Michael Baxter a version of the American Catholic story that emphasizes ‘accommodation’ to secular America” (Letters, January 13). If this...

In this world we will not ‘win wars’ [my emphasis]. We will have an assortment of civilian and military tools to increase our chances of turning looming bad outcomes into good - or at least better - outcomes. This is actually a somewhat old theme in...

Pseudoprophets I was disappointed to find Andrew Bacevich agreeing with Robert Imbelli (“History, Hope, & iPhones,” October 7, 2011) that the American Catholic Church should recover its supposedly lost integrity by taking a resolute stand against...

book for our Occupy Wall Street American world (and speaking of Wall Street, don't miss Steve Fraser's now classic history of The Street, Every Man a Speculator ); anything by Rebecca Solnit , but why not start with A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster ; Andrew Bacevich’s all-too-on-target Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War ; the latest from Frances Fox Piven -- the woman Glenn Beck loves to hate -- Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven? ; the incomparable Noam Chomsky’s updated 9-11: Was There an Alternative? ; and one prophetic older book

By leaving intact and even enlarging the policies that his predecessor had inaugurated, President Barack Obama has handed these militarists an unearned victory. As they drag themselves from one "overseas contingency operation" to the next, American...

Marable, the Columbia University historian who died as his masterpiece was being published, shows that “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” was as much the work of Alex Haley, a liberal Republican, as of Malcolm himself. Washington Rules: America’s Path to...

The professor was not there. The students knew that Bacevich always opposed the war in Iraq. They may have known that his only son, Lt. Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. , was an Army officer there. They did not know that the day before, the younger Bacevich had...

Greenwald called it "surprisingly good," which is right. But one thing about the piece really bothered me--how it dealt with the death of Bacevich's son in Iraq. Reporter Rick Hampson tells that story via the classroom: The students knew that Bacevich...

But contrary to the wishful thinking among antiwar libertarians, the Republican Party and most of the conservative movement—including the Tea Party—remained committed to America’s strategic preeminence and role as a crusader for freedom." The line...

Boston University Professor Andrew Bacevich lectures in September. Bacevich argues that with overreliance on military force abroad, America has lost its way in the world. Boston University Professor Andrew Bacevich lectures in September. Bacevich...