Some of Bacevich’s points are the sharper for being personal ... one can only hope that Bacevich is read and understood by a generation young enough to see through and reject those dismal elites.
Bacevich covers all of these issues with an admirable amount of context for such a relatively short work ... Broad in its scope yet concise, this is an important nonconformist interpretation of American history.
... excoriating ... Bacevich has covered much of this ground before, and the connections to Covid-19 sometimes seem tenuous, but his arguments are well-informed and stoked by a sense of moral outrage (his son was killed in Iraq in 2007). Readers will agree that U.S. foreign policy needs a massive rethink.
