as a military professional, it’s clear to me the war has been a recipe for complete defeat.
“Sometimes, war is sold like a consumer product, where there’s a lot of hype and a lot of hope,” said Bill Astore, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran and a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network. “That is contrary to the reality we often see.”
It was, of course, not to be and today we once again find ourselves on an increasingly apocalyptic planet. To quote Pink Floyd, the child is grown and the dream is gone. All too sadly, Americans have become comfortably numb to the looming threat of a nuclear Armageddon. And yet the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist’s Doomsday Clock continues to tick ever closer to midnight precisely because we persist in building and deploying ever more nuclear weapons with no significant thought to either the cost or the consequences.
In short, the U.S. view of the Iraq War remains insular and narcissistic. The focus is on what U.S. troops may have gotten wrong, and how the military could perform better in the future.
You don’t have to be antiwar to be highly suspicious of the U.S. military.
War, as almost any military historian will tell you, is inherently unpredictable.
Enlisting in the U.S. military is a big step for any young adult.
Col. Gregory A. Daddis will be participating in the upcoming events listed.
The insubordination we have seen from service members refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine on what they say are religious grounds is insubordination.