A twenty-year campaign in Afghanistan that ended in disaster. An intervention in Libya that helped cast the country into a decade-long civil war. An invasion of Iraq that led to chaos and removed a check on Iran. A war on terror that seems to have created more terrorists. NATO expansion in Europe that cemented Russian enmity. Why does U.S. foreign policy have such a poor record lately? And how has all of this impacted civil-military relations?  

Join us and the Columbia Political Union for a conversation with Andrew Bacevich, president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a historian of U.S. foreign and defense policy.