Andrew Bacevich joins the podcast to talk to Tom about his 2008 book, The Limits of Power, about the failures of the Iraq War and the cultural, political, and military crises that led to it and exposed the weaknesses in America’s global posture
the lessons to be taken from the post-WWII history of American military policy and foreign entanglements
why the impulse to rely on “American muscle” to fix things is often unjustified