June 24, 2008

Scholars Mourn a Colleague Who Lost His Life in Afghanistan

By David Glenn

In the summer of 2003, during the post-invasion interlude when Iraq seemed almost calm, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published an essay warning that the United States was on the verge of losing the peace.

Dozens of similar arguments appeared that year, but this one, written by a 26-year-old graduate student named Michael V. Bhatia, is as methodical and devastating as any of them.

U.S. civilian and military leaders had no serious plans for

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