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Angelo M. Codevilla
Angelo M. Codevilla (1943-2021) was a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University.
He received his B.A. from Rutgers University, an M.A. from Notre Dame University, and his Ph.D. in Security Studies, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Political Theory from the Claremont Graduate School.
At Boston University from 1995, Professor Codevilla was a U.S. Naval Officer, an Assistant Professor at the Grove City College and North Dakota State College, a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, and a member of President-Elect Reagan’s Transition Teams within the U.S. Department of State. He dealt with Western Europe and with matters affecting the U.S. Intelligence Community. He served as a U.S. Senate Staff member dealing with oversight of the intelligence services, a professorial lecturer at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Fellow for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
On Amazon.com:
- The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility, by Angelo Codevilla, 2000
- Between The Alps and a Hard Place, by Angelo Codevilla, 2000
- The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, translated by Angelo Codevilla, 1995
- Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century, by Angelo Codevilla, 1992
- Arms Control Delusion, by Malcolm Wallop and Angelo Codevilla, 1987
- While Others Build: The Commonsense Approach to the Strategic Defence Initiative, by Angelo Codevilla, 1988
- War: Ends and Means, by Paul Seabury and Angelo Codevilla, 1988
- Modern France, by Angelo Codevilla, 1974
Articles by Angelo M. Codevilla
Trump, imperfect as he is, is like a finger in a dike that, if removed, would loose a deluge.
The Election to End All Elections
Millenarian Mobs
An old and dangerous story.
The Original Fascist
From movement to epithet.
What’s Russia to Us?
Up from Russophobia.
Defending the Nation
Why we need nationalism, now more than ever.
A Certain Idea of France
The life and times of Charles de Gaulle.
On the Natural Law of War and Peace
A guide for statesmen and warriors.
War Without End
Does the U.S. need a grand strategy?
The Cold Civil War
Statecraft in a divided country.
The Tipping Point
Douglas MacArthur versus the ruling class.
The Rise of Political Correctness
From Marx to Gramsci to Trump.
The Ever Shallower Atlantic
Partisan superficiality at the Atlantic.
Make America Victorious Again
Trump’s virtue in foreign policy lies in having voiced this simple, vital thought: U.S. foreign policy must put America first...
After the Republic
Regardless of the election’s outcome, the republic established by the founders is gone.
Respecting the Respectable
Angelo Codevilla looks at a new biography of John Quincy Adams.
The Courage of His Contradictions
Kissinger's 17th book makes plain his views on war, peace, and America's global role.
While the Storm Clouds Gather*
Spies Like Us
A review of Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition, by Stansfield Turner
Courtiers
A review of Barack Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy: The Limits of Engagement, by Robert Singh; Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, David E. Sanger; Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy, by Martin S. Indyk, Kenneth G. Lieberthal, and Michael E. O'Hanlon; and The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power, by James Mann
The Sources of American Conduct
A review of George F. Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis
The Lost Decade
Years after 9/11, America has neither peace nor victory.
Victory Watch I: Are We Winning Yet?
No, not even close, reports Angelo Codevilla in this ongoing assessment of the War on Terrorism.
The Chosen One
The rise and rise of Barack Obama.
Our Borders, Ourselves
Americans’ appetite for cheap labor and cheap drugs endangers Mexico.
Why We Don’t Win
Nearly a decade after 9/11, the U.S. government hasn't managed to ensure our peace, safety, and freedom.
Transcendental Hustlers
A review of Freedom Just Around the Corner : A New American History: 1585-1828
and Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877, by Walter McDougall
Making War
A discussion between Bret Stephens and Angelo Codevilla
Inside the Box
A review of Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, by Philip Bobbitt
American Statecraft and the Iraq War
Learning from our mistakes.
Intelligence Failures
The CIA serves not the United States but its own corporate interests and its partisan vision.
Ends, Enemies, and Friends
Victory comes when enemies are identified correctly, then killed or cowed.
Strategically Challenged
Insight into the devolution of America's foreign policy establishment.
The Logic of the Peace Process
We keep hoping they'll come up with a Gerry Adams.
Some Call it Empire
Imperial delusions are no substitute for defeating our enemies.
Get Serious
Schlesinger's book is a sad testament to the state of the modern academy.
Doing It The Hard Way
Shut down al-Jazeera, control the oil fields, kill terrorist regimes.
No Victory, No Peace
What Rumsfeld's memo reveals, and conceals.
When the Cheering Stops
The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September 11.... The war on terror is not over; yet it is not endless.
Confusion and Power
The worst policy for the United States is to combine the unbridled tongue with the unready hand.
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Victory
America's political-military elite consistently get the big ones wrong.
War At Last?
President Bush must commit to war and kill the causes of terrorism.
Angelo M. Codevilla Responds
A rejoinder to Buckley, Gaffney, Owens, Podhoretz, and Tucker.
The Path To Victory
American people do not live surrounded by a moat, which means that there are 10,000 concentrations of people every day
What War?
The Bush team's conduct of the "war" made the Arab world less afraid of America.
Victory: What it Will Take to Win
Angelo M. Codevilla explains how to win - and how not to win - America's War on Terrorism.
Ariel Sharon’s Dilemma
Israel has never lost a battle. Nor has it ever won a war.
Wake-Up Call
Kagan's explanations of and remedies for military unseriousness are not what one would expect from a great student of Thucydides.