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IN PRINT: Christopher Fettweis – Losing Hurts Twice as Bad: The Four Stages of Moving Beyond Iraq

On Thursday, November 20, New York University's Center for Global Affairs hosted Christopher Fettweis, military strategist and author of Losing Hurts Twice as Bad: The Four Stages of Moving Beyond Iraq. Hosted by James F. Hoge, editor, and Peter G. Peterson chair of Foreign Affairs, chairman of the International Center for Journalists, and CGA advisory board member, In Print features leading journalists and authors and their recently published works. Hoge and Fettweis discussed threats to Pakistan’s stability, the growing role of the military in foreign policy; and the possible impact of the Iraqi elections.

About the Book
Now longer than the Civil War, America's conflict in Iraq seems to have no end in sight. A malaise, perhaps greater than that engendered by Vietnam, threatens to undo our national moorings. Christopher J. Fettweis, a military strategy expert, burst onto the national scene with an editorial and NPR interviews that provided an illuminating historical perspective on the ramifications of any great power's defeat. Fettweis contends that Iraq has thrown America into an unprecedented downward spiral, yet he provides a context for America's loss that few political pundits have recognized. With abundant historical comparisons drawn from the American Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, among others, Fettweis charts a natural course of defeat (denial, shock, anger, depression, and acceptance). He offers a prescriptive "grand strategy" that will help us forge a new approach to American foreign policy.

Christopher J. Fettweis is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Tulane University. For the last three years, he taught strategy as professor of security studies at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Political Science Quarterly, and is a frequent contributor of commentary to NPR. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Maryland.

James F. Hoge is editor and Peter G. Peterson Chair of Foreign Affairs, a bi-monthly magazine of analysis and commentary on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. During his 16 years as editor, Foreign Affairs has more than doubled its circulation to an all-time high of 160,000 and has also launched editions in Spanish, Japanese and Russian. Prior to joining Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hoge spent three decades in newspaper journalism as a Washington correspondent, then editor and publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times and finally as publisher of The New York Daily News.  Under his direction, the Sun-Times won six Pulitzer Prizes and the Daily News one. He is the Chairman of the International Center for Journalists, serves on the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch, and is an active member of the CGA advisory board.