Tom Ricks

Tom Ricks And The Military's New Philosophical Embeds

Columbia Journalism Review | Tara McKelvey | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media


Thomas E. Ricks has a photograph of a general--Ulysses S. Grant, looking haggard and defeated in Cold Harbor, Virginia--on the wall of his office. His...

Stop the Presses: Cheney's Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


Sandy Goodman

Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.

House Appropriations Committee Moves Against Iraq Mission Creep

Tom Andrews | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics


Tom Andrews

The Farr amendment not only affirms Congressional support, but positions Congress to keep a close eye out for evidence of mission creep.

Tom Ricks: Army War College "Blackballed" Me

Foreign Policy | Tom Ricks | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


Did faculty members at the Army War College curtail their criticism of the Iraq war for fear of institutional retaliation? That seems to be the botto...

Tom Ricks: We Should Really Be Fighting The 'Afghan-Pakistani War'

Foreign Policy | Posted 02.07.2009 | World


Two things that need to be said about this. The Afghan war isn't either. That is: * It isn't a good war * It isn't an Afghan war What d...