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We Need Regime Change in Russia, But How? May 04, 2023

The answer to regime change in Russia must be the employment of the West’s most potent weapon, the one that brought down the Iron Curtain: the truth....

George W. Bush

Mission Accomplished? May 04, 2023

Much has been written marking the 20th anniversary of President George W. Bush’s decision to wage war to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The history of the Iraq war, however, cannot be reduced to Bush’s decision alone. To understand the war fully a...

The Iraq War's Intelligence Failures Are Still Misunderstood March 29, 2023

The United States invaded Iraq 20 years ago under false pretenses. Historians and social scientists have spent two decades investigating what went wrong....

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The Tragedy of Iraq, 20 Years On March 24, 2023

The night President George W Bush announced to the world that a US-led coalition was invading Iraq, he said one of the aims was helping Iraqis to achieve “a united, stable and free country”. Yet 20 years since the first tanks rumbled across the borde...

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Why the Paleos Were Right About Iraq March 23, 2023

Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: The paleocons were right about the Iraq War because they were right about liberalism....

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How Russia’s U.S. Reaper Drone Shootdown Ends March 21, 2023

Have we ever seen anything like this before?...

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Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy March 20, 2023

The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well....

The Lessons Not Learned From Iraq March 20, 2023

Twenty years on, the war still shapes policy—mostly for the worse....

The Strange Case of Iraq Syndrome March 16, 2023

Elites misread public perceptions of the war....

What Were They Thinking When They Chose to Invade Iraq? March 13, 2023

The war was launched on a falsehood....

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The Rise of Xi Jinping’s China March 08, 2023

Former National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley on the risk of competition turning into confrontation: A Dispatch Q&A....

Afghanistan: The Avoidable 20-Year Disaster March 02, 2023

Arrogance prevented our leaders from acknowledging patent reality in Afghanistan, directly laying the foundation for our military failure....

Good Riddance to the War on Terror February 14, 2023

December 31 marked the end of what came to be called the “war on terrorism.” Now is as good a time as any to reflect on the mistakes that were central to this “war.”...

Is Nikki Haley Too Hawkish for the GOP? February 02, 2023

The former UN ambassador is going up against her old boss for the Republican presidential nomination....

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George W. Bush

Confronting the Iraq War January 30, 2023

Melvyn Leffler, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2023) Historians have always faced the...

Biden’s Midterm Foreign Policy Report Card December 30, 2022

There were surprising successes and dispiriting disappointments—but overall a transformative rejuvenation of America’s international standing....

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George W. Bush

The Future Is Realism August 26, 2022

The new guard in the GOP is ready to do away with the neocons' disastrous foreign policy of ideals....

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The Miscalculations and Mistakes That Led Putin to War August 04, 2022

Later it would be said that the American President had been naïve and that Putin’s protestations of friendship with the West were a masquerade from the start. But Clinton was not alone in seeing the Russian President as a valuable partner in the post...

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