Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

In “The War on Warriors,” published last year, the nominee to head the Pentagon lashes out at “social justice saboteurs” and ...

The recent release of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into the origins of the Iraq War has predictably inspired recriminations about that country’s disintegration into political turmoil and ...

And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

The premise of aiming to affect, influence and control will and perception must be the key to a strategy of shock and awe.