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Andrew Bacevich on the Limits of Power, Modern Military History, and the Folly of “Military Solutions”

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In this episode:

  • Andrew Bacevich joins the podcast to talk to Tom about his 2008 book, The Limits of Power, about the failures of the Iraq War and the cultural, political, and military crises that led to it and exposed the weaknesses in America’s global posture
  • the lessons to be taken from the post-WWII history of American military policy and foreign entanglements
  • why the impulse to rely on “American muscle” to fix things is often unjustified

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In this episode:

  • Andrew Bacevich joins the podcast to talk to Tom about his 2008 book, The Limits of Power, about the failures of the Iraq War and the cultural, political, and military crises that led to it and exposed the weaknesses in America’s global posture
  • the lessons to be taken from the post-WWII history of American military policy and foreign entanglements
  • why the impulse to rely on “American muscle” to fix things is often unjustified

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