British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher leaves 10 Downing Street, London, having officially resigned from office, 22nd November 1990. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images).Strategy without Illusions
Andrew Bacevich, a graduate of West Point and a Vietnam Veteran who later earned a Ph.D. in history at Princeton and taught at Boston University, has already written two critiques of American defense policy and strategy that have made the New York Times best seller list. This book seems likely to become a third. Its thesis is simple: the disparate theaters of American military engagement in the Greater Middle East, extending as far as Pakistan and Afghanistan in the East and toward Libya and beyond in the West, reveal a consistent pattern of strategic incoherence on the part of the…
