Andrew Bacevich

  • Wars and ignorance

    Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel about the World War II bombing of the German city of Dresden appeared the year I graduated from West Point. While...

  • Time to leave

    According to the New York Times on Monday, the number of troops in Afghanistan would be halved from its current level of 4,500.The legacy of the war...

  • Going off-script

    The impeachment of the president of the United States! Surely such a mega-historic event would reverberate for weeks or months, leaving in its wake...

  • Peace with honour

    A friend of mine, a veteran of America’s 21st-century wars in the Greater Middle East, recently sent along his most recent commentary on...

  • Where is the US Senate?

    Where is J. William Fulbright when we need him? Or if not Fulbright, perhaps Robert M. La Follette or George W. Norris. Personally, I’d even...

  • Endless wars

    Trump knows next to nothing about ISIS, one of many gaps in his education that his impending encounter with actual reality is likely to fill. ...

  • Forgotten war

    Although hardly news, it bears repeating that the Afghanistan War stands as the longest in all of United States history. By election day, it will...