The Contrasts Between the Corps and the Frontier of Empire

i think it's like, one of the responsibilities of a ruling class is to actually have an accurate understanding of what you're doing in the world rightat theyre. You ge, the contradictions between the corps and the frontier of empire. i do sort of, one can use terms like world historicoor or whatever. But having a kind of ike, hard heanded understanding of what your political action is actuallydoing in the world? It's often very different. And it's the difference, i guess, between what the soldiers in the philippines write ther their narrative of what they're there for is completely different from what thePolitical decision makers taking over thephilippinesare promoting