Andrew J. Bacevich

Andrew Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University, retired from the US Army with the rank of colonel. He is author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (Metropolitan Books, 2008) and The New American Militarism, among other books.

Currently

2008

  • 9/11 Plus Seven

    September 9, 2008

    Seven years after the attacks, the Bush Administration's strategy to transform the world has squandered our resources, buried us in debt and poses a greater strategic threat than Osama bin Laden ever did.

  • Illusions of Victory

    August 12, 2008

    The United States did not reinvent war after 9/11. It only thought it did.

2007

  • The Semiwarriors

    April 5, 2007

    By creating an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, Presidents have expanded their powers and hidden their actions from the public eye.

2006

  • The American Political Tradition

    July 10, 2006

    American foreign policy is shaped by a myth of national righteousness. In two new books, Peter Beinart abuses history to suggest liberals embrace this myth, while Stephen Kinzer uses America's history of involvement in foreign coups to reveal why we cannot.

2005

  • Robert Kaplan: Empire Without Apologies

    September 8, 2005

    In his new book, Robert Kaplan proposes that the antidote to anarchy is empire, policed by soldiers holding an assault rifle in one hand and candy bars in the other.

  • Letters

    September 8, 2005 Subscribe

  • Tug of War

    June 16, 2005

    The reality of America's role in the cold war was far more complex and ambiguous than historical accounts suggest.

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