"The Trump administration is severely weakening the U.S. military establishment in almost everything it does," Ricks said.

“Relief of generals has become so rare,” Thomas Ricks wrote in an essay in The Atlantic years ago, “that a private who loses his rifle is now punished more than a general who loses his part ...

“Relief of generals has become so rare,” Thomas Ricks wrote in an essay in The Atlantic years ago, “that a private who loses his rifle is now punished more than a general who loses his part ...

So writes Thomas E. Ricks, The Washington Post ’s senior military correspondent, in his gripping and brilliantly reported new book, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military ...

Award-winning reporter and author Thomas Ricks joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest book, 'Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast.' Ricks talks about his shift from ...

Everyone Knows but You Thomas E. Ricks. Pegasus Crime, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-63936-679-8 ...

Ricks portrays Franks and Sanchez as too narrow in their experience and too closed in their temperaments to comprehend the shifting complexities of a war followed by an occupation.

In "Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968," Thomas Ricks says the movement was able to topple Jim Crow because it acted the way a successful military acts.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Thomas Ricks about his book on a military history of the civil rights movement: Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.

In “Waging a Good War,” Thomas E. Ricks examines the civil rights movement through the lens of military history.