Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Equal time: A terrier on a Hurricane

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Review of ‘The Gathering Storm: The Naval War in Northern Europe’

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Making a ‘better peace’: The amazing elusiveness of strategic victory

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What should the U.S. government do to respond to China’s vexing drone snatch?

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Book excerpt: Saddam Hussein said that the Iranians lied to him about everything

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Review: ‘Rogue One’ is a heckuva good war movie wrapped in a Star Wars legend

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Did World War II codebreaking help humankind discover DNA a decade later?

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Is our military’s ‘warrior culture’ a reaction to leaders’ risk aversion?

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US President-elect Donald Trump gives a thumb up as he exits elevators to talk with the media at Trump Tower on December 6, 2016 in New York. / AFP / Eduardo Munoz Alvarez (Photo credit should read EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Elevator pitches to Trump by The Blob, AKA The Foreign Policy Establishment

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A few words in defense of General Flynn

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Sympathy for the devil: A good book about Benedict Arnold — and Washington

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A Lab on a Spitfire with Canadian pilot

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Is Big Army “patching over” citizen-soldiers, their history and communities?

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Insurgency and COIN, 1862 style

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The nonmilitary consequences of military revolutions: Some work to be done here?

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