14 Facts About Andrew Bacevich

Andrew Bacevich is a professor emeritus of international relations and history at the Boston University Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies.

Andrew Bacevich is a retired career officer in the Armor Branch of the United States Army, retiring with the rank of colonel.

Andrew Bacevich is a former director of Boston University's Center for International Relations, now part of the Pardee School of Global Studies.

Andrew Bacevich's father was of Lithuanian descent, and his mother was of Irish, German, and English ancestry.

Andrew Bacevich graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1969 and served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, serving in Vietnam from the summer of 1970 to the summer of 1971.

Andrew Bacevich taught at West Point and Johns Hopkins University before joining the faculty at Boston University in 1998.

Andrew Bacevich initially published writings in a number of politically oriented magazines, including The Wilson Quarterly.

Andrew Bacevich's writings have professed a dissatisfaction with the Bush administration and many of its intellectual supporters on matters of US foreign policy.

Andrew Bacevich asserts that policymakers in particular, and the US people in general, overestimate the usefulness of military force in foreign affairs.

Andrew Bacevich believes romanticized images of war in popular culture interact with the lack of actual military service among most of the US population to produce in the US people a highly unrealistic, even dangerous notion of what combat and military service are really like.

Ultimately, Andrew Bacevich eschews the partisanship of current debate about US foreign policy as short-sighted and ahistorical.

Andrew Bacevich wrote an editorial about the Bush Doctrine published in The Boston Globe in March 2007.

Andrew Bacevich's papers are archived at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

Andrew Bacevich's son was a first lieutenant in the US Army, assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th US Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.