A modest proposal: Fire all of the post 9/11 generals
We need to rebuild the ranks of the senior officer corps with members of a new generation who know where we went wrong — and do it now.
Responsible Statecraft looks at media complicity in the wars, the triumph and tragedy of whistleblowers, the expanded security state, havoc wrought on the Middle East, and more.
We need to rebuild the ranks of the senior officer corps with members of a new generation who know where we went wrong — and do it now.
An obscure Pentagon document from 1992 provided a blueprint for the ‘war on terror.’
It’s clear now that the invasion of Iraq and the 20-year GWOT couldn’t have happened without the Fourth Estate’s complicity.
Congress’s blank check helped launched conflicts, many currently ongoing, that have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
The seeds of destruction were already planted with prior decades of colonialism propping up corrupt, weak governments.
The first American charged under the Espionage Act after the attacks asks whether empire has permanently replaced the republic.
If anything, bureaucratic and physical distance increased between agencies and lines became blurrier.
While a country grieved, a surveillance state bloomed and began eating away at our basic Constitutional liberties.