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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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Mike Norman considers the following as important: US militarism, US military
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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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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 Studies