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A Realist Rally

Leslie H. Gelb | Sep 03, 2008
As featured in the IHT: Realism can lead the way out of our foreign-policy shambles. But first the camp’s heavyweights need to bridge the partisan

The Ethics of Realism

John C. Hulsman
Anatol Lieven
| Jun 01, 2005
Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr--the fathers of American realism--understood that good intentions do not excuse failure.

The Praetorian Guard

William Pfaff | Dec 01, 2000
The real civilian-military gap is between the U.S. military's excessive influence and common sense.

Why the Gap Matters

Eliot A. Cohen | Sep 01, 2000
Bridging the gap between military officers and their civilian counterparts will be no easy task. Yet the stakes are too high to comtemplate failure.

The Gap

Peter D. Feaver
Richard H. Kohn
| Sep 01, 2000
The directors of an ambitious project on civil-military relations detail their findings and plumb the divide between soldiers and civilians.

Tradition Abandoned: America's Military in a New Era

Andrew J. Bacevich | Jun 01, 1997
American civil-military relations will remain vexed for some time.
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Fighting Men

Geoffrey Parker | Sep 01, 2002
Eliot Cohen's look at the greatest democratic statesman of recent centuries affirms Clemenceau's quip that war is too important to be left to the generals--even American generals.

Acheson, Simply Put

Robert F. Ellsworth | Dec 01, 1998
Chace's Acheson is encompassing, graceful and prodigiously researched and annotated.

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