Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich, aTomDispatchregular, is chairman and co-founder of theQuincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His new Dispatch book,On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century, has just been published. He is the author of Americas War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House.
Recent articles by Andrew Bacevich
14 June 2023
The compulsion to intervene why Washington underwrites violence in Ukraine
Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever thatWashington Postcolumnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to follow. And as it happens, hes positively bullish about the prospect of Ukraine handing Russia a decisive defeat in its upcoming, widely anticipated, sure-to-happen-any-day-now spring counteroffensive.
17 September 2022
Russias underperforming military- the same as the US military with disaster after disaster
In Washington, wide agreement exists that the Russian armys performance in the Kremlins ongoing Ukraine special military operation ranks somewhere between lousy and truly abysmal. The question is: Why? The answer in American policy circles, both civilian and military, appears all but self-evident.