Andrew Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which Random House will publish in April.

Reflections on “peace” in Afghanistan

Leaving a misguided war and choosing not to look back.

By Andrew Bacevich

/ 12 Sep 2019

What obsessing about you-know-who causes us to miss

24 key national security issues that neither the Washington elite nor the media consider worth their bother.

By Andrew Bacevich

/ 10 May 2017

Six national security questions that won't be asked in the US presidential elections

Preoccupied with point-scoring on ISIS, the candidates and commentators of the US presidential elections present a highly parochial vision of national security. What crucial issues are they leaving out?

By Andrew Bacevich

/ 28 Jan 2016

Vietnamization 2.0

The US history of military intervention is shocking. It should be learnt from, rather than continued.

By Nick Turse and Andrew Bacevich

/ 21 Oct 2015

The theology of American national security

Clinging to policies that have manifestly failed is madness—but that is exactly what the US is doing in Iraq.

By Tom Engelhardt and Andrew Bacevich

/ 19 Jun 2015

The Hill to the rescue on Syria?

Will members of the Senate and the House grasp the opportunity to undertake an urgently needed reassessment of America’s War for the Greater Middle East?

By Andrew Bacevich

/ 10 Sep 2013