Are We Stuck in a Permanent War?
Presidents may come and go, but national security stays the same, according to Andrew Bacevich, a former U.S. Army colonel and professor of history and international relations at Boston University. “I have become increasingly skeptical,” Bacevich said, “about the tendency toward overmilitarization.” Continuing the study he began in his previous two books, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War and The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Bacevich argues in Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War that the U.S. is always at war, and …
