Military reporter Thomas E. Ricks will lecture at Princeton University next Monday, April 13, on “Obama’s War: Why We Are Stuck in Iraq.”
His talk, at 8 p.m. in McCosh Hall 10, will address the unresolved problems that are likely to keep the U.S. in Iraq for many more years.
Ricks is special military correspondent at the Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Center for A New American Security, a bipartisan think tank that studies national security issues. He is the author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006), which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, and the recently published The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, which tells the inside story of the events leading up to the surge and the role of General David Petraeus in the current direction of the Iraq war.
Before joining the Post in 2000, Ricks covered the military beat for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years. He has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In 2000 he was a member of the Wall Street Journal team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on the role of the military in the 21st century. He was also a member of the Washington Post team that won a 2002 Pulitzer for reporting on the U.S. war against terrorism. In addition, Ricks is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy magazine and has written for the Atlantic Monthly and other publications. He is a 1977 graduate of Yale University.
Princeton University Public Lectures’ Stafford Little Fund will sponsor Ricks’s lecture, which is free and open to the public. For more information about other lectures in this series, see http://lectures.princeton.edu.

