Melvynp Leffler News Today

A fight for global values demands a stronger coalition.

Every year we kick off the holiday season with a roundup of books recommended by the War on the Rocks and Texas National Security Review team. Enrich your

Severed ties between U.S. and Russian scholars are straining the field to a breaking point.

The passage of 20 years has not healed the wounds inflicted by the U.S. invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq on March 20, 2003.

George W. Bush has told advisers that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein — and he has not changed his mind about that.

Plus, the Gardner museum closed in fear of climate protests and Thaddaeus Ropac now represents Zadie Xa.

‘Tell me, how does this end?’ asked US general David Petraeus during first push to Baghdad in 2003

A review of Melvyn P. Leffler, “Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq” (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.

  Executive Summary • Despite the Biden administration’s push to revitalize U.S. alliances, U.S. relations with NATO are due for a reset. The United States should incentivize European members of NATO to take on additional responsibilities for their defense. • Encouraging the European allies to take initiative will help the United States focus on its other domestic and international priorities and may facilitate improving relations with Russia. This approach will also prove attractive to...