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The wrong turn that US strategy took after 9/11
India, Sept. 11 -- 46 in the morning on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Three plane crashes and almost 3,000 deaths followed. The US shut down. The City That Never Sleeps collapsed. And US television shows stopped running ads for a full two weeks - a cultural indicator of just how shocking and unprecedented the attacks were.
The wrong turn that US strategy took after 9/11
At 8:46 in the morning on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Three plane crashes and almost 3,000 deaths followed. The US shut down. The City That Never Sleeps collapsed. And US television shows stopped running ads for a full two weeks — a cultural indicator of just how shocking and unprecedented the attacks were.
Ukraine War: What Would Brent Scowcroft Do?
As Brent Scowcroft’s biographer, I get asked what he would advise on Ukraine. With Ukrainian president Zelensky still requesting more military and financial assistance, with members of Congress and the American public split on the U.S. government’s handling of Ukraine, and with the future U.S. commitment to supply Ukraine unclear, what would Scowcroft advise? This is a thought experiment.
Brent Scowcroft: Master of the Modern-Day National Security Apparatus
Alex Wong/Getty Images Bartholomew H. Sparrow is professor of government at The University of Texas at Austin, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and author of The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security. When the Iran-Contra scandal broke in late 1986, the National Security Council and national security adviser came under serious attack for having covertly traded arms for hostages and secretly transferred funds to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, sits down with professor Bartholomew Sparrow, professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and author of, The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security, to talk about the late Brent Scowcroft. Scowcroft was a towering figure in American foreign policy for over 50 years.
H-Diplo Roundtable XVII, 5 on The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security [26 October 2015]
H-Diplo Roundtable Review Volume XVII, No. 5 (2015) 26 October 2015 Roundtable Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse Roundtable and Web Production Editor: George Fujii Introduction by Bartholomew H. Sparrow. The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security. New York: PublicAffairs, 2015. ISBN: 9781586489632 (hardcover, $37.50/CDN$46.99). URL: http://www.tiny.cc/Roundtable-XVII-5 Contents Introduction by Robert Jervis, Columbia University.
The Other Point of Departure: Tocqueville, the South, Equality, and the Lessons of Democracy
Abstract Democracy in America has greatly influenced not only how political scientists think of democratic government, political equality, and liberalism in general, but also how we think of the United States as a whole.
Trans-Pacific Partnership poses food dangers
It is hard to disagree with former national security adviser Gen. Brent Scowcroft’s endorsement of the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership: By greatly cutting tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, the 12-member agreement would spur U.S. exports of mechanical and electrical equipment, advanced materials, pharmaceuticals and many other goods. As Scowcroft’s biographer, I find it a bit awkward to openly disagree with a man for whom I have great respect and with whom I usually agree.
Trans-Pacific Partnership should raise concerns about safety and quality of imported foods | Commentary | Dallas News
It is hard to disagree with former national security adviser Gen. Brent Scowcroft's endorsement of the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership: By greatly cutting tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, the 12-member agreement would spur U.S. exports of mechanical and electrical equipment, advanced materials, pharmaceuticals and many other goods. As Scowcroft's biographer, I find it a bit awkward to openly disagree with a man for whom I have great respect and with whom I usually agree.
Fall of Saigon Anniversary: How U.S. Managed Its Vietnam Failure
On April 23, 1975, before a youthful crowd of forty-five hundred at Tulane University, President Gerald R. Ford announced that the Vietnam War was over. “Today,” the president proclaimed, “America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam, but it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned.” The crowd erupted in “a jubilant roar” and “nearly raised the roof with whoops and hollers,” the New Republic’s White House correspondent wrote.
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