342 | Trump's Last Defense Secretary on Cutting the Pentagon Budget, Base Closures, Forever War Accountability, and New Threats with Christopher C. Miller
The Realignment
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Is the Iraq War a Civilian Led Decision?
I'm really interested at the end of the book when you're talking about how generals haven't been held accountable for the inability to win wars, especially since we're basically looking at the 50s in Korea. So I guess what I'm kind of just curious about is like, what does responsibility and defeat look like in the case of a general given if we were to really get to the core of what our critiques of the US foreign policy decisions have been? He says he doesn't like the idea of making generals hold the bag Even if they've made poor tactical decisions for civilian decisions that made an outcome inevitable. And these, these decisions have been strategically unmoored, which have resulted in
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