This is a guest post by Jacqueline L. Hazelton. Dr. Hazelton is an assistant professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College. I asked her to write a brief piece about her new Foreign Affairs essay for the Duck of...
Iraq war
The second- and third-most downloaded articles at the journal Security Studies both tackle the causes of the Iraq War. This might reflect an imbalance of supply and demand: there aren't.
This is the grave of Chris Kyle. Born in 1974 in Odessa, Texas, Kyle wanted to become a rodeo star. But as happens in that utterly insane sport, he suffered.
"Chilcot says there was no need to go to war in March 2003." And . . . "Blair “overestimated his ability” to influence US decisions on Iraq." "the inquiry does not accept Blair’s claim that it was impossible to predict post-invasion problems". "Blair presented the...
It's always sad when the George Washington of a nation dies...
The sound you hear is the continuing implosion of Jeb Bush. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said on Thursday during a campaign stop in Iowa that "taking out Saddam.
If I'm Doug Feith or Dick Cheney or Paul Wolfowitz, this is just crazy talk. An aid worker who travels to Raqqa said the ranks of ISIS were filled with volatile young men, many of them foreigners more interested in violence than governance. To keep...
Reihan Salam provides of somewhat less than compelling defense of why he is still a neo-con and why America needs his point of view. He fully admits that Iraq was.
I've been ruminating for a while about this John Judis column on lefty reluctance to engage in Syria. Ali Gharib has a good response here, and Dan Trombly here; suffice.
Over at the Diplomat a take a stab at thinking about how memory of the Iraq War will matter: The tenth anniversary of the launch of the Iraq War has helped spark a debate over how the war will be interpreted by history. Was the...
My answer: Hell no. The answer I expect historians will give fifty years from now: No. The answer Iraqis are giving now and likely will continue give: Hells No! The.
Read this fantastic essay over at Best Defense. I meet a lot of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan through my work, as students, guest speakers, and through the various other.