The US Military's Culture of Lies

William Astore says the U.S. is a nation being unmade by war, the very opposite of what most Americans are taught. If wars were won with lies, he argues, the U.S. would be undefeated.



By William Astore
TomDispatch
As a military professor for six years at the U.S. Air Force Academy in the 1

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