WASHINGTON (AP) — Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and was a Republican voice against ...

The passing of Brent Scowcroft is an opportunity for a bit of reflection about the U.S. foreign policy elite and its attitude toward American military intervention in world affairs. There is a ...

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, sits down with professor Bartholomew Sparrow, professor of government at the University of ...

President George H. W. Bush calls Russian President Boris Yeltsin from the Oval Office as National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft stands by on Nov. 30, 1992. (George Bush Presidential Library and ...

In an oral history released after his death, the former national security adviser revealed a few key moments in which his ideas failed in the war against Saddam Hussein. By Peter Baker By the time he ...

Fifteen years ago, Scowcroft observed the United States had entered an era where it could no longer accomplish its goals unilaterally. We are still in that era. As Brent Scowcroft’s biographer, I get ...

Few people have had a greater impact on U.S. national security affairs over the last 40 years than Brent Scowcroft, who died last week at age 95. Presidents from Richard Nixon through Barack Obama ...

Former President George W. Bush famously spoke as if English were his second language. It proved so again last Wednesday. In a darkly ironic slip, Bush denounced the invasion of Iraq as “unjustified,” ...