interviews
Emma Sky on How to Fix Iraq and Defeat ISIS
You write that the rise of ISIS in Iraq was not inevitable but a function of failed policies on the ...
Should Women Fight Alongside U.S. Special Forces?
Your book details the death of the first woman to die in an all-women unit called the Cultural Support Team ...
Thanassis Cambanis on Egypts Unfinished Revolution
In your new book, Once Upon a Revolution, you tell a well-known story from a previously unexplored perspective—that of the revolutionaries themselves, ...
Are We at our Norman Angell Moment with China?
Christopher Cokers new book, The Improbable War: China, The United States and Logic of Great Power Conflict, opens with a discussion of ...
A Conversation with Christian Appy on the Fragility of American ...
Your book, American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (Viking), discusses this syndrome of “No More Vietnams,” which ...
Nicolaus Mills on Army-Navy Football, Vietnam, and Brotherhood in War
When West Point won the Army-Navy Game of 1964, it fulfilled the dreams of teammates who had suffered defeats at ...
Scott Horton on How Secrecy Erodes the Ability to Wage ...
In his latest book, Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare, Harper’s scribe and Columbia University legal ...
Free Speech, Self-Censorship, and the Cartoon that Shook the World
When Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in 2005, its editor, Flemming Rose, and his country, Denmark, found themselves ...
American Witnesses of the Nazi Rise to Power
Your book Hitlerland chronicles the lives of Americans who witnessed first-hand the Nazis rise to power. What drew the Americans you write ...
Revisiting the First 102 Days of the War on Terror
The phrase Tora Bora became a tagline for anti-Bush stump speeches by John Kerry during his 2004 presidential run. Over ...