Chickenhawk

There’s a massively important article on the American military in the currentAtlantic, which is fortunately readable online. It’s by James Fallows, who has always seemed to be the military analyst who asks the right questions.
Here’s your take-away:
If I were writing [a history of our times] now, I would call itChickenhawk Nation, based on the derisive term for those eager to go to war, as long as someone else is going. It would be the story of a country willing to do anything for its military...