Iraq War

‘The Achilles Trap’ reexamines the relationship between Hussein and four U.S. administrations.

The invasion of Iraq is the most important foreign policy decision by a U.S. president in the 21st century, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

Who disbanded Iraq’s army and de-Baathified its bureaucracy?

Two former CIA officials weigh in: "It's time to call him what he is: 'A liar.'"

Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.

The right—and wrong—lessons of the Iraq War.

Melvyn Leffler’s book on the roots of the Iraq invasion demonstrates the pitfalls of excessive trust in one’s sources, especially when they're top policymakers.

A fatal combination of fear, power, and hubris.

If we’re never going to hold U.S. war criminals accountable, what moral credibility do we have when we condemn Russia and others?

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

A U.S. intelligence officer reflects on the moral corruption of an open-ended occupation.

Biden didn’t just vote to authorize the Iraq war for “peace and security.” He got it wrong at every stage.

The former Bush mouthpiece had more to do personally with the Iraq WMD catastrophe than he wants us to believe.

Many of the assumptions that guided America’s march to conflict in 2003 still dominate American foreign policy today.   

Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, there’s no satisfying answer to the question: What were we doing in Iraq anyway?

The researchers compiling the U.S. Army’s accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan have an unprecedented volume of material to sort.

George W. Bush committed an international crime that killed hundreds of thousands of people.