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Military Interventions and the “Lessons of Iraq”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2007

Stephen Watts
Affiliation:
Centennial Center Visiting Scholar and Belfer Center, Harvard University

Extract

The disastrous invasion of Iraq has shed a stark light on the limitations of military interventions. Much of the ensuing skepticism is quite healthy. But there is a risk that “the lessons of Iraq” will be learnt to the exclusion of lessons that can be drawn from the more than two dozen other interventions of the post-Cold War era.

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ASSOCIATION NEWS
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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