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The cost of loyalty, dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military, Tim Bakken

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The cost of loyalty, dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military, Tim Bakken

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-368) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The cost of loyalty

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1140072896

Responsibility statement

Tim Bakken

Sub title

dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military

Summary

Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty yers at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. Bakken makes the case that the culture has has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them

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