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Iraq War

The Iraq War’s Worst Legacy: Endless Confrontation With Iran

This month marks twenty years since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. The bloodshed that followed cost Iraq and America dearly. Yet there was a winner in the chaos:...

Iraq War Bloodthirst Was Manufactured—and It Could Happen Again

March 19 will represent the 20th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, and already, many complicit in its bloodshed are attempting to rewrite history. From comfortable positions at the...

Macchiavelli Has Some Advice for America’s Iraq Strategy

Here’s What to Remember: “A student of classical Roman history, Machiavelli used the Roman experience, primarily as related in the histories of Titus Livy, to instruct princes and republics on how...

The Legacy of the Iraq War: Decreased American Interventionism

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The enduring cost of the Iraq invasion comes in the form of the thousands of dead Americans, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis. Technology...

Neither America Nor the Middle East Have Gotten Over the Iraq War

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The enduring cost of the Iraq invasion comes in the form of the thousands of dead Americans, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis. Every...

The Enduring Cost of the Iraq Invasion is Hundreds of Thousands of Dead

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The enduring cost of the Iraq invasion comes in the form of the thousands of dead Americans, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis. Every...

What If The United States Had Removed Saddam Hussein Before 2003?

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Conceivably, the rise of an Iraqi leader who could not play the villain to the same extent as Saddam Hussein could have ameliorated that problem....

How the Iraq War Changed The Future of American Intervention

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The biggest change likely comes in a reassertion of the traditional reticence of the American public towards foreign military intervention, a reticence that waned after...

A Noble Effort Gone Wrong? How Arabs Remember America’s Iraq War

Peter van Buren’s 2011 book We Meant Well sums up a common theme when Americans look back about the Iraq War: The country went into it with good intentions but...

How the 2003 Iraq War Changed America (and the World) Forever

Here’s What You Need to Know: Hindsight is 20/20, but Washington should have known that the invasion was a mistake. Every player of the popular video game Civilization knows to hit the...

How Bush’s 2003 Iraq Invasion Changed America (and the World)

Here’s What You Need to Know: Great powers have the luxury of making costly mistakes. Every player of the popular video game Civilization knows to hit the save button before engaging in...