US military action has long been shaped by policy and ideology. Now it is shaped by whim.
US military action has long been shaped by policy and ideology. Now it is shaped by whim.
Lecturer in Government at Harvard University and lecturer in Social Sciences at Boston University.
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For many years before becoming president, Donald Trump publicly criticised the George W Bush administration over its decision to launch the war on Iraq. And yet, today, in his second term as president, he finds himself presiding over a military debacle that is quite reminiscent of Bush’s.
The military has been recast in a partisan, performative mold – all according to the president’s logic of impunity
The US president, who had said he would avoid needless foreign wars, has embraced military power with few limits.
Surge in air attacks and civilian casualties accompany avowed ‘peace through strength’ strategy as efficacy questioned.
Increasingly unpopular at home, a president obsessed by his legacy has turned his scattergun on the world stage
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