Andrew J. Bacevich on "U.S. Foreign Policy After Iraq" at the Future of Freedom Foundation's http://fff.org Restoring the Republic, 2008.
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins.
Playlist of Bacevich's lecture: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B85B2A8E04D9EBD7
In Part 1, Bacevich comments on S. Kinzer's book, Overthrow, before beginning his own presentation. Notice Bacevich's even tone of voice and linear presentation. Sources on what he says can be found as endnotes in The Limits of Power and his earlier book, The New American Militarism. Here, he makes the point that the US has always used military "intervention" to create our wealth and status; this use of force began to unravel or backfire in the 1970s (see New American Militarism).
OneCarefulListener 1 year ago
Andrew Bacevich is one of the few scholars whose got it right and has the courage to say it.
chicago618 1 year ago