Image via Wikipedia The Volunteer Army concept allows our citizens to offload the risk to certain economic classes and remove personal interest in the effects of foreign policy. Intuitively, I’d guess that those who rise to positions of policy making are least likely to have served in the military and lack a visceral connection to […]
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War is hell
From The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army. The book chronicles the careers of four different generals (GEN John Abizaid, GEN George Casey Jr, GEN Peter Chiarelli, and GEN David Petraeus).: A few weeks before he was scheduled to depart, Abizaid was walking on a […]