ANDREW COCKBURN is the Washington Editor of Harper’s magazine and the author of many articles and books, principally on national security and military affairs, including the New York Times Editor’s Choice Rumsfeld and The Threat, the book that destroyed the myth of Soviet military superiority underpinning the cold war. He is a regular opinion contributor to the Los Angeles Times and has written for, among others, The New York Times, National Geographic, and the London Review of Books. You can sign up for email updates here.
