Andrew Bacevich

Andrew Bacevich is a former colonel in the US army and the author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History.

In the LRB Archive:

• A Prize from Fairyland: The CIA in Iran · 2 November 2017

  • Foreign Relations of the US, 1952-54, Iran, 1951-54 edited by James Van Hook

• The Greatest Person then Living: Presidents v. Generals · 27 July 2017

  • The General v. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H.W. Brands

• Small nations, take heed: Hanoi’s War · 7 February 2013

  • Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam by Lien-Hang Nguyen

• A Hell of a Spot: Eisenhower and Suez · 16 June 2011

  • Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis: Suez and the Brink of War by David Nichols

• Social Work with Guns: America’s Wars · 17 December 2009

• The Long War: Motives behind the Surge · 26 March 2009

  • The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

• Why read Clausewitz when Shock and Awe can make a clean sweep of things?: The Rumsfeld Doctrine · 8 June 2006

  • Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor

• Denizens of Baghdad’s Green Zone, take note: America’s Forgotten General · 20 April 2006

  • Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism by Jack McCallum

• Keep slogging: The Trouble with Generals · 21 July 2005

  • Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18 edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne

• Debellicised: The Protean face of modern warfare · 3 March 2005

  • The Remnants of War by John Mueller
  • The Future of War: The Re-Enchantment of War in the 21st Century by Christopher Coker
  • The New Wars by Herfried Münkler

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