U.S. policymakers should listen to Gen. Clausewitz, not Gen. MacArthur.
Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is the director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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The Pakistan Puzzle
Recent tomes on Pakistan overlook ordinary citizens’ conflicting motivations, says our man on the ground.
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Tweedledum, Tweedledee
In the October print issue of the Prospect, James Lindsay reviewed two new books offering alternative progressive foreign policy visions — Michael Lind’s The American Way of Strategy and Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman’s Ethical Realism. Today, those books’ authors reply to Lindsay. Lieven and Hulsman’s response is below. See Lind’s response here. — Having […]
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Realism and Reality
The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century by Michael Mandelbaum (Public Affairs, 320 pages, $26.00) Michael Mandelbaum’s latest book is a superficial symptom of a grave, even potentially deadly disease: the inability of the overwhelming majority of the U. S. establishment to contemplate a limited […]
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Return to Realism
The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course by Richard N. Haass (Public Affairs, 242 pages, $25.00) Gulliver Unbound: America’s Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq by Stanley Hoffmann with Frederic Bozo (Rowman and Littlefield, 168 pages, $19.95) Some books derive their significance not only from what they say but also from who […]