George Bush thought of the Iraq War as a ‘mission from God’, according to a top US official who tried to persuade Tony Blair ...

Files released to the National Archives at Kew, west London, show officials feared Professor Sir David King’s remarks would ...

President Joe Biden announced that the nation’s next two aircraft carriers will be named after former presidents George W.

5. For a succinct analysis of the neoconservatives’ influence on the post-9/11 Bush White House, see Jeffrey Record, Dark Victory: America’s Second War against Iraq (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute ...

From the deck of a US aircraft carrier off the California coast, President George W Bush declared major combat in Iraq over today and called the six-week war "one victory" in the campaign against ...

George H.W. Bush loved the CIA. It was “part of my heartbeat,” he once said. He was the only president who ever ran the agency, and the last president who truly believed in its Cold War code ...

But in the War Against Terrorism the new thinking is that the only defense is offense. President Bush is advocating a new strategic doctrine emphasizing preemptive strikes against our enemies.

Bush Sr served as the 41st US president between 1989 and 1993, his term defined by the end of the Cold War and the first Iraq war against Saddam Hussein. While his health had been failing in ...

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