America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
(Random House, 2016)
Featuring the author Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations, Boston University; with comments by Jon B. Alterman,
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and
Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic
and International Studies; and Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
As the Cold War wound down, the United States initiated a new conflict—a
war for the greater Middle East. From the Balkans and East Africa to
the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, U.S. forces embarked upon a series of
campaigns across the Islamic world with no end in sight. In his aptly
titled new book, America’s War for the Greater Middle East,
Andrew Bacevich connects the dots of a sweeping narrative from episodes
as varied as the Beirut bombing of 1983, the Mogadishu firefight of
1993, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the rise of ISIS in the present
decade. Indeed, Bacevich claims that America’s costly military
interventions can only be understood when seeing the seemingly discrete
events as part of a single war. Is he right? Or are America’s military
adventures in the Middle East discrete occurrences driven by the unique
circumstances of the moment? Is it really one big, long war, or many?
Join us to find out.
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