Title: Breach of trust
Description: Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Rather than something for "other people" to do, Bacevich argues that national defense should become the business of "we the people."
Subjects: National security, Voluntary Military service, Social, War and society, Military History, Sacrifice, Citizenship, National security, united states, Military service, voluntary, United states, history, military, Social aspects, Armee, Gesellschaft, Soldat, Staatsburger, New York Times reviewed
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century