How We Got Into a Permanent War

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 22, 2016

Andrew Bacevich, retired professor of history and international relations at Boston University, West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran and author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House, 2016), argues that the U.S. shifted its military focus from Cold War footing to the Middle East in the 1980s, leading to today's "permanent war."

 

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