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
Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr--the fathers of American realism--understood that good intentions do not excuse failure.
The real civilian-military gap is between the U.S. military's excessive influence and common sense.
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 directors of an ambitious project on civil-military relations detail their findings and plumb the divide between soldiers and civilians.
American civil-military relations will remain vexed for some time.
The U.S. military ignores the teaching of Clausewitz at its own peril.
The U.S. military is now more alienated from its civilian leadership than at any time in American history, and more vocal about it.