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Andrew J. Bacevich, Sr
Andrew J. Bacevich, Sr. (born 1947 in Normal, Illinois) is a professor of international relations at Boston University and a retired career officer in the United States Army. He is a former director of Boston University's Center for International Relations (from 1998 to 2005), and author of several books, including American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy (2002), The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (2005) and The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008). He has been "a persistent, vocal critic of the US occupation of Iraq, calling the conflict a catastrophic failure." In March 2007, he described George W. Bush's endorsement of such "preventive wars" as "immoral, illicit, and imprudent." His son, also an Army officer, died fighting in the Iraq War in May 2007.
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Washington Examiner
February 2, 2018
We are stuck, as military historian Andrew Bacevich put it, in a grueling “pattern of promiscuous intervention” in which new military commitments are accrued more by automation than strategy, “oblivious to the possibility that in some parts of the world, U.S. forces may no longer be needed, whereas in others,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 1, 2018
DIRECTORATE S The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan By Steve Coll Illustrated. 757 pp. Penguin Press. $35. Steve Coll has written a book of surpassing excellence that is almost certainly destined for irrelevance. The topic is important, the treatment compelling, the conclusionsÃÂ ...
The Nation.
January 31, 2018
Andrew J. BacevichAndrew Bacevich, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House. To submit a correction for our consideration, click here. For Reprints and Permissions, click here. Comments (24)ÃÂ ...
History News Network (HNN)
January 25, 2018
Bearing the imprimatur of Pentagon chief James Mattis, the NDS—at least the unclassified summary that we citizens are permitted to see—is in essence a brief for increasing the size of the U.S. military budget. Implicit in the document is this proposition: more spending will make the armed forces of theÃÂ ...
LobeLog
January 23, 2018
Last year, to mark the end of the Obama administration, LobeLog spoke with foreign policy analysts Andrew Bacevich, of Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies, and John Mearsheimer, of the University of Chicago. The resulting interview covered the Obama foreign policy legacy as well as theÃÂ ...
LobeLog
January 23, 2018
Last year, to mark the end of the Obama administration, LobeLog spoke with foreign policy analysts Andrew Bacevich, of Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies, and John Mearsheimer, of the University of Chicago. The resulting interview covered the Obama foreign policy legacy as well as theÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
January 17, 2018
Andrew J. Bacevich, a prominent conservative foreign-policy writer, takes umbrage with many of the administration's early moves, and throws shade at some of its efforts at reform, including an audit at the Pentagon. “The audit is a gesture, unlikely to have any serious impact on how the Pentagon spends itsÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
January 14, 2018
No doubt any effort aimed at converting Iran into a status power will require patience and subtlety. Yet the place to begin is with the realization that we have no “friends” in the Greater Middle East. None. We have only interests, which await rediscovery. Andrew J. Bacevich is TAC's writer-at-large.
The American Conservative
January 3, 2018
The Woeful Inadequacy of Never-Trumpism. Max Boot and Eliot Cohen can't figure out why Trump was elected in the first place. By Andrew J. Bacevich • January 3, 2018ÃÂ ...
Truthdig
January 1, 2018
Retired colonel and West Point grad Andrew Bacevich summed it up thus: “With the people opting out, war became the exclusive province of the state. Washington could do what it wanted and it did.” Perhaps that helps explain why American troops now operate in 70 percent of the world's countries. FinallyÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 22, 2017
There is reason to believe North Korean is fundamentally engaged in a “huge game of blackmail,” as retired Col. Andrew Bacevich, a military historian, explains. Kim presides over “an exceedingly weak and arguably very fragile regime,” Bacevich says, and his “principle objective is to remain in power.”.
The Boston Globe
December 21, 2017
President Trump and Admiral Harry Harris (second from right) during a welcome ceremony at US Pacific Command (PACOM) on Nov. 3 in Aiea, Hawaii. By Andrew Bacevich December 21, 2017. The authors of the Trump administration's new National Security Strategy, released this week, are marketing it as an expressionÃÂ ...
Kearney Hub
December 20, 2017
Where is J. William Fulbright when we need him? Or Robert M. La Follette or George W. Norris, asks Andrew J. Bacevich this week in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times. As professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University, Bacevich contends Fulbright, La Follette and Norris areÃÂ ...
The Daily News of Newburyport
December 19, 2017
This is what La Follette and Norris, Borah and Wheeler, and Fulbright did in their time. That among their successors today there appear to be none willing or able to take up their mantle is a sad testament to the state of American politics. Andrew J. Bacevich is professor emeritus of history and internationalÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 19, 2017
To the editor: Is Andrew J. Bacevich kidding when he says the senators who vociferously opposed the United States entering World War I were doing their solemn duty? Can you imagine what the world would look like today, with the war lost because of the U.S. not participating? (“As American statecraftÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
December 19, 2017
... mismanaging the opportunity for peace created by the end of World War II. A similar judgment applies to the opportunity for peace created by the end of the Cold War. Upon reflection, the United States might have been better served had it honored its 1990 commitment to Gorbachev. Andrew J. BacevichÃÂ ...
The Korea Herald
December 17, 2017
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 settle for William Borah or Burton K. Wheeler. During the 20th century, each of these now largely forgotten barons of the US Senate served the nation with distinction.
Los Angeles Times
December 15, 2017
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 settle for William Borah or Burton K. Wheeler. During the 20th century, each of these now largely forgotten barons of the U.S. Senate served the nation with distinction.
Common Dreams
December 11, 2017
Andrew Bacevich ÷ Andrew Bacevich. Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, is the author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House. He is also editor of the book, The Short Americanà...
London Review of Books
October 25, 2017
The series in which this volume appears constitutes the official historical record of American diplomacy. In 1989, the State Department published a volume with the same title as this one, nearly 1100 pages in length, which purported to document US-Iran relations in the early 1950s. In fact, focused as it wasÃÂ ...
The Nation.
September 19, 2017
Andrew J. BacevichAndrew Bacevich, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House. To submit a correction for our consideration, click here. For Reprints and Permissions, click here. Comments (24)ÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
August 14, 2017
One of the privileges of power that Americans routinely abuse is to remember selectively. It was not surprising, then, that this year's centennial of the United States' entry into World War I attracted barely any official attention. A House resolution commending “the brave members of the United States ArmedÃÂ ...
Salon
May 17, 2017
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton. He is the author of "The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War" (2005) and "The Limits of Power:ÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
December 31, 1999
The Real News We Ignore at Our Peril. This is the threat to our democracy, not Fake News. And Exhibit A is our failed war in Afghanistan. By Andrew J. Bacevich • January 11, 2018ÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
December 31, 1999
Darkest Hour is the latest retelling of the heroic parable routinely celebrated by American politicians and pundits. By Andrew J. Bacevich • January 5, 2018 .... expand our store of parables. We might begin by installing a bust of Gandhi or Mandela or Pope Francis in the Oval Office. Andrew Bacevich is TAC's writer-at-large.
War on the Rocks
November 10, 2017
This is why we are pleased to not only support and elevate the voices of scholars like Barry Posen of MIT; Michael Desch, Eugene Gholz, and Joe Parent of Notre Dame; Eric Gartzke of UC-San Diego; and former professor and soldier Andrew Bacevich, but also to convene events here in Washington and ...
New Republic
November 8, 2017
Win or quit, or win and then quit. When Donald Trump was a candidate for president last year, this pretty much represented his strategic menu of options for the country's ongoing wars. Whichever way things went, they were going to change, though, and for the better. No more putzing around ineffectually ...
The American Conservative
November 7, 2017
Disregarding President Trump's insistent claim that the establishment press propagates “fake news” requires a constant effort—especially when a prestigious outlet like the New York Times allows itself to be used for blatantly fraudulent purposes. I cherish the First Amendment. Mark me down as favoring ...
London Review of Books
October 25, 2017
The series in which this volume appears constitutes the official historical record of American diplomacy. In 1989, the State Department published a volume with the same title as this one, nearly 1100 pages in length, which purported to document US-Iran relations in the early 1950s. In fact, focused as it was ...
The Nation.
September 19, 2017
Andrew J. BacevichAndrew Bacevich, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House. To submit a correction for our consideration, click here. For Reprints and Permissions, click here. Comments (24)Â ...
Foreign Affairs
August 14, 2017
One of the privileges of power that Americans routinely abuse is to remember selectively. It was not surprising, then, that this year's centennial of the United States' entry into World War I attracted barely any official attention. A House resolution commending “the brave members of the United States Armed ...
Democracy Now!
August 10, 2017
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London Review of Books
July 19, 2017
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Salon
May 17, 2017
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton. He is the author of "The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War" (2005) and "The Limits of Power:Â ...
The Boston Globe
March 16, 2017
I find it incredible that the Rev. David W. Sidoruk ("Those who serve in the military are on a vital mission," Letters, March 14), who takes issue with Andrew Bacevich's March 7 op-ed "Mourning in America," could be so unfamiliar with who Bacevich is ...
BillMoyers.com
March 14, 2017
Military analyst Andrew Bacevich has aptly described it as "the surge to nowhere." Boosters of the surge in Iraq frequently refer to it as if it were partial redemption for the disastrous decision to invade in the first place.
Task & Purpose
March 14, 2017
"Adjusted for inflation, American spending to reconstruct Afghanistan now exceeds the total expended to rebuild all of Western Europe under the Marshall Plan," military historian Andrew Bacevich writes in a New York Times op-ed published Monday. He ...
The Boston Globe
March 14, 2017
Andrew Bacevich's"Mourning in America" (Opinion, March 7) caught my attention. It was a good sermon. I give Bacevich an A for construction, a B for coherence, but a D- for the conclusion.
The Boston Globe
March 13, 2017
Re "Mourning in America" (Opinion, March 7): I'd like to add a hauntingly apt phrase to Andrew Bacevich's commentary about what he rightly terms "ostentatious displays of spurious emotion," in which veterans and soldiers are used, and misused, to ...
New York Times
March 13, 2017
When it comes to wars, we Americans have a selective memory. The Afghan war, dating from October 2001, has earned the distinction of having been forgotten while still underway.
The American Conservative
March 10, 2017
Andrew Bacevich reviews Susan Carruthers' The Good Occupation. The revised travel ban: still harmful and unnecessary. Barbara Slavin identifies the many flaws of the new travel ban.
The American Conservative
March 10, 2017
Andrew Bacevich reviews Susan Carruthers' The Good Occupation. The revised travel ban: still harmful and unnecessary. Barbara Slavin identifies the many flaws of the new travel ban.
Open Democracy
March 8, 2017
Military analyst Andrew Bacevich has aptly described it as "the surge to nowhere." Boosters of the surge in Iraq frequently refer to it as if it were partial redemption for the disastrous decision to invade in the first place.
The American Conservative
March 8, 2017
At what point do egregious factual errors undermine the credibility of an otherwise carefully researched and thoughtful book? I can't say with precision, but The Good Occupation by Susan Carruthers, a professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark ...
In These Times
March 7, 2017
Military analyst Andrew Bacevich has aptly described it as "the surge to nowhere." Boosters of the surge in Iraq frequently refer to it as if it were partial redemption for the disastrous decision to invade in the first place.
The American Conservative
March 7, 2017
Of course the now shopworn maxim has limits: as Andrew Bacevich has noted, it easily becomes "peace through war" because such a formidable posture "breeds the temptation to put that power to work.
CommonWealth magazine
March 7, 2017
4 - Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University, examines the emotional tribute to Ryan Owens, a Navy SEAL killed during a raid in Yemen, during President Trump's recent address to Congress.
Reason (blog)
March 5, 2017
Trump has indeed shown he can fill the job expected of any president: supreme head of what Andrew Bacevich calls the Church of America the Redeemer.
Green Left Weekly
March 3, 2017
"I actually do think he is the closest thing we have to a 'moderate' in this administration," Andrew Bacevich, a conservative military historian at Boston University and long-standing critic of US defence policy, told me.
Pagosa Daily Post
March 3, 2017
Andrew Bacevich, describing the quasi-religious nature of American exceptionalism and the quest for global dominance, wrote last week: "Members of the Church of America the Redeemer, Democrats and Republicans alike, are demonstrably incapable ofÃÂ ...
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