Thomas E. Ricks

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks blogs about the U.S. military and national security issues at “The Best Defense” on the Foreign Policy web site. He recently asked his readers to post songs that U.S. soldiers have used in recent years to prepare themselves to fight. Ricks joins us with a top-10 list that may surprise you.

Thomas E. Ricks, senior fellow, Center for a New American Security, contributing editor for Foreign Policy magazine, special military correspondent for the Washington Post, and author of Fiasco and The Gamble, gives us an update on Iraq, looking at how stable the country is, what to expect from ...

In early July, U.S. combat troops withdrew from the urban areas in Iraq. Thomas E. Ricks, author of The Gamble and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins us for a look at whether the situation in Iraq’s cities has changed much since U.S.-led forces ...

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks secured hundreds of hours of interviews with top military commanders in Iraq. The result is his new book The Gamble, which takes an in-depth look at General Petraeus's surge strategy and the the Iraq War from 2005 on. You can read Thomas ...