Stuart A. Cohen's work stands the test of time and provides a handy reference for what remains an understudied period.

America's security and economic interests in Iraq have never been greater, but Obama's commitment is uncertain.

Hay's mission was to establish civil administration as the British took control of Iraq from Ottoman authorities.

Operation Iraqi Freedom was but one campaign in what we have come to call "The Long War" in the Greater Middle East.

Democracy isstarting to take root in Iraq. The United States should get behind it.

We assumed a responsibility when we rightly took down Saddam Hussein. We should not prove bin Laden again correct when he said that Americans cannot last in a war with men of faith.

John Kerry often seems more interested in strategic self-esteem with Europethan in actually winning the war in Iraq.

With continued progress in Iraq, the next administration would be in a position to turn its full attention to thwarting Iran elsewhere in the region.