A more-than-customarily good article by James Fallows in this month's Atlantic, The Tragedy of the American Military.
The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.
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