"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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