How Iraq was lost
Steve Coll’s account of America’s relationship with Saddam Hussein reveals a series of devastating blunders.
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How to kill a country
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was no turning point. It was a slow-burning tale of how Britain and the US…
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Letter of the week: A true public servant
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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General Richard Dannatt’s last fight: the legacy of the Iraq War
The outspoken soldier on Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and an impossible job.
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The long shadow of the Iraq War: how one town honoured Britain’s fallen soldiers – Audio Long Reads
How do you mourn those killed in an “unjust” war? For years, the English town of Wootton Bassett showed the…
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Iraq made Donald Trump inevitable
The populist backlash was a reaction to elite-driven failures in the Middle East.
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The long shadow of the Iraq War
How do you mourn soldiers killed in an “unjust” war? For years the town of Wootton Bassett showed us how.
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The Iraq War exposed the liberal delusion of remaking the world
The fall of Saddam Hussein was not the end that had been promised – it was the image of the…
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I came to Iraq as an idealistic volunteer and was nearly killed in my first week
Working in Kirkuk, I fell in love with the country and its people. But the West’s intervention brought devastation and…
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Once Upon a Time in Iraq’s James Bluemel: “The invasion caused mass chaos”
The director of the acclaimed series on Britain’s blindness to the consequences of war.
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In its pursuit of Russian regime change, the West is doomed to repeat the errors of the Iraq War
A new generation of liberal hawks views Ukraine as the pivotal battlefield in a global struggle for democracy.
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After Iraq: the great unravelling
The breakdown of the West’s rules-based order began with the invasion of 2003.
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Our Shamima Begum obsession
Her story has been told and retold in countless newspaper articles, three podcasts and three documentaries. Why can’t we look…
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Robert Kaplan’s tragic realism
Haunted by his misguided support for the Iraq War, the American writer turned to tragedy to understand the delusions of…
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The “Five Eyes” spies who fought the West’s secret wars
The intelligence network’s blunders in the Middle East have been disastrous – but it has a vital role in an…
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George Bush’s Iraq War gaffe is unintentionally revealing
A slip of the tongue from the former US president highlights uncomfortable parallels with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Don’t count on sanctions to push Putin from power
Isolating Russia economically may not have the intended effect, as the examples of Iraq, South Africa and Myanmar show.
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“Leaving every night”: Kurds still determined to reach UK after Channel tragedy
Poor governance, unemployment and Turkish airstrikes are but some of the factors pushing people to leave for Europe.
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The massive challenge of climate action in oil-dependent Iraq
Oil provides 90 per cent of Iraq’s revenue. Even as farmland dries up, fractured governance makes reform seem almost impossible.
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Colin Powell did not want the Iraq War to define his legacy – but it will
The late US secretary of state himself described his 2003 speech to the UN on WMDs as a “blot” on…
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