The Danger of Unexplained Military Firings
How lawful authority can quietly become a filter for political reliability inside the profession of arms
The Architecture of American War
How a constitutional restraint became a procedural ritual, and how American power keeps force easy to start, hard to stop, and politically survivable for the people who authorize it
Why the Powerful Never Pay for War
War survives because modern political systems separate decision from consequence. The people who authorize violence are buffered from its cost, while the people with the least power absorb the blood,
Why the Powerful Never Pay for War
War survives because modern political systems separate decision from consequence. The people who authorize violence are buffered from its cost, while the people with the least power absorb the blood,
When Civilian Control Becomes Partisan Screening
How lawful authority can quietly become a filter for political reliability inside the profession of arms
When Civilian Control Becomes Partisan Screening
How lawful authority can quietly become a filter for political reliability inside the profession of arms
The Threshold of Command
When lawful civilian control begins to drift into partisan filtering
The Threshold of Command
When lawful civilian control begins to drift into partisan filtering
Lawful and Corrosive
Something can be constitutional in form and degrading in effect. The distinction between civilian control and partisan screening is not legal. It is institutional.
