Col. William Astore (Ret.), author of the article ‘Who’s Military is it Anyway‘ at TomDispatch.com, discusses the distinction between an all-volunteer and an all-recruited military, the increasing similarities between the U.S. military and the French foreign legion, the misguided push to re-institute the draft as an antiwar measure and how the characterizations of military deployments as ‘long wars’ become self-fulfilling prophesies.
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