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"Military Interventions and the 'Lessons of Iraq'"

"Military Interventions and the 'Lessons of Iraq'"

Journal Article, PS: Political Science and Politics, volume XL, issue 2, page 419

April 2007

Author: Stephen Watts, Former Research Fellow and Associate, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2006-2007

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Intrastate Conflict Program

 

"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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For Academic Citation:

Watts, Stephen. "Military Interventions and the 'Lessons of Iraq'." PS: Political Science and Politics XL, no. 2 (April 2007): 419.

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