{"id":3844,"date":"2007-09-04T17:44:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/04\/andrew-bacevich\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:44:59","slug":"andrew-bacevich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/04\/andrew-bacevich\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Bacevich"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/aw083007Bacevich.mp3]\n

Andrew Bacevich<\/a>, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University and author of The New American Militarism<\/em><\/a>, and <\/span>The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II<\/span><\/em><\/a>, discusses the president’s comparison of Iraq to Vietnam, and some realistic ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (16:35)<\/p>\n

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bacevich is the editor of The Long War: A New History of US National Security Policy since World War II (2007).<\/em> His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy<\/em> (2002), The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire<\/em> (2003), and The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War <\/em> (2005). His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The American Conservative, <\/em>and The <\/em> New<\/em> Republic<\/em> .<\/em> His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington<\/em> Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, <\/em> Boston<\/em> Globe, <\/em> Los Angeles<\/em> Times, <\/em> and USA Today, <\/em>among other newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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