What it means for a country always at war, that so few of its people do the fighting.
“War remains a large part of who we are as Americans,” he writes in his introduction, “with almost a sixth of our federal budget going to defense, keeping troops deployed in 800 military bases around the world and engaging in counterterror missions in 85 countries. And yet, thanks to a series of political and strategic choices, to the average American that’s mostly invisible.”
Firsthand exposure to the country’s “long wars” has been almost unbelievably concentrated. All the Americans who have served in Iraq, Afghanistan or any other U.S. combat theater at any time since the 9/11 attacks of 2001 together amount to around 1 percent of the nation’s public. Phil Klay
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What it means for a country always at war, that so few of its people do the fighting.
“War remains a large part of who we are as Americans,” he writes in his introduction, “with almost a sixth of our federal budget going to defense, keeping troops deployed in 800 military bases around the world and engaging in counterterror missions in 85 countries. And yet, thanks to a series of political and strategic choices, to the average American that’s mostly invisible.”
Firsthand exposure to the country’s “long wars” has been almost unbelievably concentrated. All the Americans who have served in Iraq, Afghanistan or any other U.S. combat theater at any time since the 9/11 attacks of 2001 together amount to around 1 percent of the nation’s public. Phil Klay
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May 17, 2022 at 8:35 AM
DRAFT DOOGERS DON'T CARE THEY HEAD EITHER TO MEJICO OR CANADA YELLOW BELLIES TRAIORS...
All the veterans do is collect disability checks. Why are all of them disabled?
May 17, 2022 at 7:33 PM
Only an idiota would ask....PENDEJO IDIOTA
May 17, 2022 at 7:33 PM
Sounds like that hillbilly wanna be white RATA. yellow belly red-ass MARICON...
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