Daddis contributes to Responsible Statecraft’s series reflecting on the 250th anniversary of American Independence and its impact and meaning for modern U.S. foreign policy, war, and peace.
Daddis previews his new book, Faith and Fear: America’s Relationship with War.
Fellow Gregory A. Daddis breaks down the falsehoods and self-promotion featured in David Petraeus’ most recent Foreign Affairs opinion piece.
Fellow Gregory A. Daddis breaks down the falsehoods and self-promotion featured in David Petraeus’ most recent Foreign Affairs opinion piece.
Endless wars create an endless stream of veterans, who as you see in “What I Want You To Know,” are left questioning whether their sacrifices led to something better.
Twenty years on, listening to panels bringing together American and Iraqi perspectives of the 2003 war demonstrated that there remain, in emerging American narratives at least, two very different Iraq wars.
I think it’s time for us as Americans to start questioning the assumptions we have in war and stop placing so much faith in what war can achieve for us overseas.
Policymakers making assumptions about the use of military force and how quickly that military force will achieve political objectives. We’ve seen over and over again how some of these assumptions are faulty.
If war is as much a cultural construct as it is a political one, then we need to elevate these dissenters’ voices in our culture.
They don’t tell us if if the ISIS operatives killed or detained were key players in the organization or low-level members who easily could be replaced,