Andrew Bacevich co-founded the Quincy Institute in 2019 and is now a member of the board of directors. He is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University. A graduate of West Point and Princeton, he served in the army before becoming an academic. Bacevich is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books, among them: The New American Militarism (2005), The Limits of Power (2008), Washington Rules (2010), America’s War for the Greater Middle East (2016), The Age of Illusions (2020), After the Apocalypse (2021), Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out against America’s Forever Wars (2022), and On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century (2022).
Andrew Bacevich
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Andrew Bacevich
Recent Work
Books
Ravens on a Wire
Vietnam’s dark legacy, as faced on the West Germany border With the torment of Vietnam finally ended, the U.S. Army …
On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century
On Shedding an Obsolete Past provides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump …
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in …
Latest Work Published Elsewhere
Events
East Meets West
In the lead-up to the Biden-Xi meeting at the APEC summit in San Francisco in November 2023, the Quincy Institute and Foreign Policy held a series of conversations with experts and leaders on the state of U.S.-China relations and potential pathways forward to avoid a confrontation.
Lessons Learned from Oversight of War and Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan
In the past year, Congress has disbursed roughly $100 billion in total aid in support of Ukraine’s efforts to beat …
MIT Starr Forum — Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
Grand Delusion reveals that the story of four decades of American involvement in the Middle East, while episodically impressive, was …