William Tucker

BAYJI, Iraq — Bayji, a Sunni town 40 miles north of Tikrit, is one of the places where the Bush…

TIKRIT — The invasion of Iraq began as a gritty, boots-on-the-ground affair. (Karl Zinsmeister’s Boots on the Ground, which chronicled…

TIKRIT, Iraq — The humvees first sent to Iraq didn’t have side armor. Instead two gunners sat at the open…

BAGHDAD — They call it the “Green Zone” but I prefer to think of it as the Kremlin. The nine-square-mile…

I’m sitting in the chow hall at the transit base in Kuwait when a Navy Seabee walks over to my…

KUWAIT — To all intents and purposes, Kuwait City Airport doesn’t look much different from Newark, Nashville or Phoenix. There…

The other night I was having dinner with two friends in an Upper West Side restaurant when an extraordinarily loud…

Lewis Namier, the great British historian, once called 1848, the year of unsuccessful revolutions in continental Europe, “the turning point…

Whenever anybody starts talking about how we can solve our energy problems and end oil imports, they always end up…

If you want to see the document that may determine history for the next two years — and probably elect…