Twenty years on, listening to panels bringing together American and Iraqi perspectives of the 2003 war demonstrated that there remain, in emerging American narratives at least, two very different Iraq wars.
I think it’s time for us as Americans to start questioning the assumptions we have in war and stop placing so much faith in what war can achieve for us overseas.
Policymakers making assumptions about the use of military force and how quickly that military force will achieve political objectives. We’ve seen over and over again how some of these assumptions are faulty.
If war is as much a cultural construct as it is a political one, then we need to elevate these dissenters’ voices in our culture.
They don’t tell us if if the ISIS operatives killed or detained were key players in the organization or low-level members who easily could be replaced,
The real inheritance of Pearl Harbor is that it shrank the world in terms of how Americans have thought about their national security ever since.
I believe that if Americans were really being honest on the issue, some might concede they actually miss the Cold War.
My strong sense is that the lesson in every subsequent administration has been to try and keep military action off the front pages as absolutely as much as possible.
Col. Gregory A. Daddis will be participating in the upcoming events listed.
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