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Heather Hurlburt
Heather Hurlburt directs the New Models of Policy Change project at New America and has worked in foreign policy and communications roles at the White House and the State Department, and on Capitol Hill.
Posted inBooks, January/February/March 2018, Magazine, Main
The Still-Ugly American
Could a legendary Cold War spy’s “hearts and minds” strategy, which failed in Vietnam, have worked in Iraq and Afghanistan? It’s a tough sell.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2015, Magazine
Is a Grand Strategy for America Even Possible?
Three of our finest flag officers attempt to offer unifying visions for the United States, but run aground on the same political polarization that flummoxes everything else.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
Broken Promised Land
Truman’s quick recognition of Israel was tragic, dysfunctional, and quintessentially American.
Posted inPolitics
After Gaddafi, Back to Uganda
In the week since the White House announced the dispatch of 100 U.S. troops to Uganda to battle the Lord’s Resistance Army, longtime Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi met a bloody end, apparently brought about by vengeful Libyan fighters but aided by NATO airstrikes, which forced his fleeing convoy off the road. In Slate, the journalist […]
Posted inPolitics
Ask One for the Gipper
It’s hard to imagine what Ronald Reagan would make of the GOP presidential contenders who will gather to debate at his presidential library next Wednesday. One imagines he would admire Michele Bachmann’s debate and media savvy, and Rick Perry’s campaign and people skills. On his record, though, things are a bit more complex. Reagan famously […]
Posted inMagazine
Everything but war made the difference
Bosnia and Kosovo, where conflicts were followed by free elections and newly-democratic structures of governance, overseen by U.S. soldiers and international funding at much higher per capita rates than in Iraq. Popular democracies there should have spread calm to troubled neighbors Serbia and Macedonia; Liberia, which by now should be exporting high-quality democracy to Sierra […]
Posted inMagazine
War Torn
Late in 2000, with one eye on the presidential campaign and the other on history, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger called a group of staffers into his office. He wanted to give a major speech laying out the essence of the Clinton administration’s national security doctrine and the challenge of transformation that lay ahead. We […]
