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Andrew Bacevich

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. He is the author of “The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War” (2005) and “The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism” (2008), among other books. His latest book is “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War.”

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A serviceman holds a rifle during a training session of the Spartan separate unit of the Offensive Guard of the National Guard of Ukraine, Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine/ (Getty Images/NurPhoto/Contributor)

Seduced by war yet again: Why Washington is underwriting violence in Ukraine

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Joe Biden and John F Kennedy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

JFK’s advice to Joe Biden: Tread cautiously, and avoid my mistakes

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

Joe Biden echoes MLK’s call to save America’s soul. But is that even possible?

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A marcher holds a sign that says "NO WAR" with a closed fist as protest outside of Trump International Tower during the Woman's March in the borough of Manhattan in NY on January 18, 2020, USA. (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq

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A good deed from the wicked witch?

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American flags placed on the National Mall by the Covid Memorial Project to represent the 200,000 Americans that have lost their lives due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in Washington, DC, USA on September 22, 2020. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Reframing America’s role in the world

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Like every great Detective, Bosch knows where to go for a strong drink and a good meal and one of his favorite haunts is Los Angeles’ historic Musso & Frank’s Grill, where he starting frequenting as a child. Open since 1919, most of Musso’s original restaurant menu remains unchanged and it’s still a popular among Hollywood A-Listers in search of a great martini and a delicious steak to go along with it. (Aaron Epstein)

Patton and Westy meet in a bar

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Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the audience during a town hall on November 21, 2019 in Greenwood, South Carolina. Polls show Biden with a commanding lead in the early primary state. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

What happens if Biden wins?

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(L-R) Vietnam War veteran C. Patrick McCourt and retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Sidney Wade salute as they participate in a wreath laying ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe at the National World War II Memorial on May 8, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

V-E Day plus 75: From a moment of victory to a time of pandemic

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White House National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien and U.S. President Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Judgment day for the national security state

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President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kellogg Arena, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, in Battle Creek, Mich. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

How “historic” are we?

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Dan Quayle and George H.W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

A report card on the American Project

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President Donald Trump comes out of the Oval Office for his departure from the White House on September 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

False security: Trump and the Ten Commandments (plus one) of the national security state

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Flight deck crew prepare to launch an F/A 18 Hornet during early morning flight operations from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Thursday March 20, 2003. (AP/Richard Vogel)

Autopilot wars: Sixteen years, but who’s counting?

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Kissing the specious present goodbye

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Obesessing over Trump? You’re missing something important

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U.S. marines run with their combat gear to take position in the suburbs of the town of Nasariyah in Iraq March 24, 2003. U.S. marines were fighting on Monday to take control of Nassiriya where the city's defenders were putting up stout resistance. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj Pictures of the month March 2003 DS/FMS (© Reuters Photographer / Reuters)

Prepare, pursue, prevail! Onward and upward with U.S. central command

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David Brooks (PBS)

At the altar of American greatness: David Brooks, Trump and the Church of America the Redeemer

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George Washington was right: Declaring love for one country while running another presents problems

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Several dozen students from various high schools in the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area gather downtown to protest Republican nominee Donald Trump's victory in Tuesday’s presidential election, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. The protests were peaceful and students said that they felt compelled to demonstrate against Trump because they were not old enough to vote. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus) (AP)

Donald Trump’s election reveals that we are two nations

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Hillary Clinton greets moderator Lester Holt of NBC News as she and Donald Trump take the stage for their first debate in Hempstead, New York, September 26, 2016. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

What Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton got wrong about nuclear weapons

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FILE - In this May 12, 1960, file photo, President Dwight Eisenhower, front right, shakes hands with Rep. Arch Moore, of West Virginia, as he poses with a group of Republican congressmen after breakfast at the White House, in Washington. Moore, whose guilty pleas to federal corruption charges overshadowed his record as his era's most successful Republican in Democrat-dominated West Virginia, died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. He was 91. (AP Photo/Bill Allen, File) (AP)

Sixty years and nothing to show: The slow decay of American politics since Eisenhower, Stevenson

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George W. Bush (AP/Ron Edmonds)

America’s Iraq strategy is a trillion-dollar tragicomedy

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Bill Kristol (AP/Janet Van Ham)

America’s broken brain trust: Why public intellectuals are hastening our empire’s demise

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