Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. He has been a fellow of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

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Save Us From Washington’s Visionaries: In (Modest) Praise of a Comforting Mediocrity
Washington's lack of visionaries and willingness to steer clear of global disasters were ultimately a good thing.
Andrew J. Bacevich

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In Iraq and Beyond, U.S. Foreign Policy is Based On Complete Fallacies
How can we ever hope for a sane foreign policy in the Middle East when America's bedrock assumptions about the region are completely wrong?
Andrew J. Bacevich
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