Question: What did Andrew Bacevich label the book referenced by Necessary Illusions?
Context: Alfred Paul "Al" Seckel (September 3, 1958 – 2015) was an author of books on visual and other types of sensory illusions, and how they related to perception.  Seckel collected, researched, and experimented with illusions to understand what conditions are necessary for them to work. The Greater Middle East is a political term, introduced in the early 2000s, denoting a set of contiguously connected countries stretching from Morocco in the west all the way to the western edge of China in the east.  Various countries of Central Asia are sometimes also included.  According to Andrew Bacevich in his book "America's war for the Greater Middle East" (2016), the career soldier and Professor Emeritus at Boston University states that this region is the theatre for a series of conflicts dating back to 1980, which heralded the start of the Iran-Iraq war.  Since then, the U.S. has been involved in balancing conflicts amongst these culturally interconnected nations in order to further its interests in the region.  The Greater Middle East is sometimes referred to as "The New Middle East", or "The Great Middle East Project". Lawrence F. Kaplan (born 1969) was editor of "Entanglements: Arguing America and the World", a website of "The New Republic" devoted to foreign policy and featuring David Rieff, Andrew Bacevich, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, and other noted writers.  Kaplan was previously editor of "World Affairs" and executive editor of "The National Interest", both international relations quarterlies.  He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Army War College.  He was formerly a senior editor at "The New Republic", where he wrote about U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.  From 2005-2007, Kaplan reported for the magazine from Iraq.  He has also written about foreign policy for "The Wall Street Journal", "The Financial Times", "Slate", "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", and numerous other publications. Les Illusions de la Psychanalyse is a 1980 book about psychoanalysis by the Belgian psychoanalyst Jacques Van Rillaer, in which the author criticizes psychoanalytic theory and practice.  "Les Illusions de la Psychanalyse" has been called a classic work. The American Empire Project is a book series that deals with what they theorized were imperialist and exceptionalist tendencies in recent U.S. foreign policy.  The series is published by Metropolitan Books and includes contributions by notable authors such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson and Andrew Bacevich. "Peace through strength" is a phrase which suggests that military power can help preserve peace.  It is quite old and has famously been used by many leaders from Roman Emperor Hadrian in the first century AD to former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and current U.S. President Donald Trump.  The concept has long been associated with realpolitik.  The idea has critics: "'Peace through strength' easily enough becomes 'peace through war,'" according to Andrew Bacevich. Andrew J. Bacevich, Sr. (born July 5, 1947) is an American historian specializing in international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, and American diplomatic and military history.  He is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.  He is also a retired career officer in the Armor Branch of the United States Army, retiring with the rank of Colonel.  He is a former director of Boston University's Center for International Relations (from 1998 to 2005), now part of the Pardee School of Global Studies. The Street: A Film with the Homeless is a 78-minute 1997 documentary film about the Canadian homeless in Montreal.  The film was directed by Daniel Cross and produced by him and Don Haig.  The production houses were the National Film Board of Canada and Necessary Illusions Productions Inc. Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr ( ; June 21, 1892June 1, 1971) was an American theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.  Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.  A public theologian, he wrote and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion, politics, and public policy, with his most influential books including "Moral Man and Immoral Society" and "The Nature and Destiny of Man", the second of which Modern Library ranked one of the top 20 nonfiction books of the twentieth century.  Andrew Bacevich labelled Niebuhr's book "The Irony of American History" "the most important book ever written on U.S. foreign policy."  Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. described Niebuhr as "the most influential American theologian of the 20th century" and "Time" posthumously called Niebuhr "the greatest Protestant theologian in America since Jonathan Edwards." Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies is a 1989 book by United States academic Noam Chomsky concerning political power using propaganda to distort and distract from major issues to maintain confusion and complicity, preventing real democracy from becoming effective.  The title of this book borrows a phrase from the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr.
Answer: The Irony of American History