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William J. Astore
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William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), has taught at the Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. He currently teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. He is regular contributor to TomDispatch and also the author of Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism (Potomac, 2005).
Hint: We’re always the bad guys.
Despite the sorry results delivered by air power over the last 65 years, the US military continues to invest heavily in it.
How words have shaped the United States government’s ongoing cycle of violence.
The military has become a force unto itself, increasingly unaccountable to either the president or Congress.
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No matter what the military does (or doesn't) accomplish, it continues to garner praise, resources, and funding.
The American military doesn’t have a strategy; it has an itinerary.
Many of the military’s problems begin with the training of its leaders.
When you define something as war, violence becomes the only means.
A quarter-century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the military remains structured to defeat a threat that no longer exists.
How never-ending war became—and will stay—the new normal.
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