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For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

The US suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy for a turn away from imperialist ambitions.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret.

A new book by Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses the past and present challenges posed by authoritarianism, but misses the conditions in which it arises.

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.

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

Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.

That's when the public learned that American multinationals were making enormous bribes to politicians in foreign countries.

Though he ended up seeking congressional approval for the Gulf War, Bush was unconvinced he needed it – saying he would have gone regardless of the vote.

A first-hand account of how intel gleaned from 'enhanced interrogation' was used to make the case for the 2003 invasion.

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?

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.

Our horror of chemical agents is one of the great success stories of modern diplomacy.

Mushroom clouds, duct tape, Judy Miller, Curveball. Recalling how Americans were sold a bogus case for invasion.

Two legal scholars make the case that President Bush must seek congressional authorization before initiating a preemptive military strike on Iraq.

George Kennan discusses the steps that are being taken in regards to the conflict with Iraq and questions President Bush's strategy.

Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address kicked off a war that continued well into the 21st century.