"Whose Army? Civil-Military Relations in the United States Since World War II”

Andrew J. Bacevich, Ph.D., Professor of International Relations and History (BS, United States Military Academy; MA, PhD, Princeton) at Boston University, will deliver the Second Annual Lore Kephart ’86 Distinguished Historians Lecture on Monday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m., in the Villanova Room of Connelly. The topic of Dr. Bacevich's lecture is: "Whose Army? Civil-Military Relations in the United States Since World War II.”
Dr. Bacevich's specialization is American Diplomatic and Military History, U. S. Foreign Policy, and Security Studies. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he received his Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University, he taught at West Point and Johns Hopkins.

Bacevich is the author of Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (2010). His previous books include The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008); The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II (2007) (editor); The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005); and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (2002). His essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times, among other newspapers.

In 2004, Dr. Bacevich was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He has also held fellowships at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Learn more about Dr. Bacevich here.