Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War And The Military Became Everything: Tales From The Pentagon Quotes
It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world
What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)
It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.
Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.