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Outside View: Strategic lessons -- Part 3

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Like his predecessors Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, President Dwight David Eisenhower in the 1950s was not bashful about asserting American influence and power, but his wartime experience led him to resist interventions that involved the open-ended commitment of U.S. ground forces to altruistic missions.

FDR's lessons for 21st century U.S. strategy

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman provided lessons in restraint in the use of massive American ground forces overseas that teach valuable lessons for 21st century U.S. policymakers.

History's lessons for America's 21st century wars

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- America's wars over the last century teach 21st century presidents the lesson that avoiding massive casualties in direct conflicts with the main combat strength of enemy nations is far more important to victory and domestic prosperity than investing in high-tech and other costly weapons systems.

Outside View: Iraq realities -- Part 2

WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The suppression of violence and the reduction in U.S. casualties in Iraq over the past year and a half was not U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker's or U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus' accomplishment. It was achieved by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Outside View: Iraq realities -- Part 1

WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- In his famous work "The Peloponnesian Wars," written more than 2,000 years ago, the classical Greek historian Thucydides argued that states go to war for one or all of three reasons. States fight against threats. States fight for profit. Or, states fight for honor.

Outside View: After Iraq

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Nations and their leaders tend to learn by experience, which means they often discover the right way forward only when it is too late. America, alas, is no exception to this rule.

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