While many in the country debate whether President Donald Trump has the legal authority to use the military against ...

Thomas Ricks is telling his colleagues about the skepticism he encountered when writing his Iraq war book, Fiasco. “When I first started working on it,” he says, “a lot of people said, ‘Why are you ...

(“The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict” by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes, W.W. Norton, $22.95.) Five-star general and president Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: ...