After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
Brooks Atkinson
It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade... →
Rick Atkinson
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry... →
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That... →
In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself that... →
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of... →
I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different... →
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The... →
There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I... →