Andrew J. Bacevich — What Happens When a Few Volunteer and the Rest Just Watch — The American Military System Dissected

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How to explain this paradox of a superb military that never gets the job done? Let me suggest that the problem lies with the present-day US military system, the principles to which the nation adheres in raising, organizing, supporting, and employing its armed forces. By its very existence, a military system expresses an implicit contract among the state, the people, and the military itself. Here, as I see it, are the principles — seven in all — that define the prevailing military system of the United States.... TomDispatch  What Happens When a Few Volunteer and the Rest Just Watch — The American Military System Dissected Andrew J. Bacevich, Col. (ret.) US Army, and Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global

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