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Quotes from Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country — Andrew Bacevich

born 1947 United States

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In this way, the bravery of the warrior underwrites collective civic cowardice, while fostering a slack, insipid patriotism.

Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013)

The way a nation wages war — the role allotted to the people in defending the country and the purposes for which it fights — testifies to the actual character of its political system.

Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013)

In its quest to control an unruly world, the Pentagon — acting in the name of the American people — slices and dices that world into smaller and smaller segments, while neglecting to assess the actual costs and benefits of the persistent meddling that it terms engagement.

Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrew Bacevich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.