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Ms_Armstrong !'s List: cst - military industrial complex
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May 04, 12
(Revolving Door)
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Dec 28, 11
Go HERE for map of military contractor connections: http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?map=15828
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Sep 28, 13
(cost of war ~ failing infrastructure)
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A glimpse of Webb’s broader intellectual framework can be found online in the stirring book review he wrote for The American Scholar in praise of historian Andrew Bacevich’s seminal work The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. Bacevich and Webb disagree on some points in the critique but they are kindred spirits. Both served in Vietnam, both have sons who went to war in Iraq. Bacevich’s son, Andrew, a 27-year-old platoon leader, was killed there by a suicide bomber. Father and son share the same fate of “picking the wrong war at the wrong time,” the professor wrote afterwards.
Webb saluted Bacevich’s book for describing the confusion and corruption of military values that followed Vietnam and for revealing the profound confrontation within the military institution itself. “One side,” Webb explained, “is represented heavily by those with a classical training in America’s past wars (and frequently with experience in having fought them) who would send American forces into harm’s way only if the nation is directly threatened. The other side is dominated by a group of theorists, most of whom have never seen the inside of a military uniform, who adhere to an essentially Trotskyite notion that America should be exporting its ideology around the world at the point of a gun.
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This buried conflict in national purpose is the essence of America’s dilemma in the world—a self-made trap in which the nation can neither win the endless, borderless conflicts nor get free of the impossible obligations claimed for the US military
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