President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and professor emeritus of history and irRelations at Boston University. He’s author of “The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory" and The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War; and America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. Bacevich is a retired Army colonel and veteran of Vietnam and the Gulf War.
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