Charlie Savage

Charlie Savage is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of Takeover and Power Wars, both about presidential power and national security. (September 2024)

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A Terrible Mistake

Steve Coll’s The Achilles Trap recounts the long history of confusions, misconceptions, and miscalculations in the relationship between the US and Iraq, from Saddam Hussein’s rise to power in 1979 to the the American invasion in 2003.

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq

by Steve Coll

September 19, 2024 issue

Controlling the Chief

The militarization of the executive branch makes it timely to think about the experiences that have shaped the past generation of top Pentagon brass

The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents

by Mark Perry

February 8, 2018 issue