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.

The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the United States prompted numerous counterinsurgency operations across various theaters ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), 229.

He has written five books, married for a second and ... as a product of two lost wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. There’s little in “The War on Warriors” that suggests that Hegseth was ...

Iran-born actress Sahel Rosa recently published two books to raise awareness among Japanese of the realities facing child ...

"Essential listening..." Why the US and UK went to war in Iraq and its legacy. The BBC's Security correspondent Gordon Corera speaks to those at the heart of the decision-making. Show more ...