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David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday October 21, 2008
Documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has a new book, The American Way of War, which discusses how the military-industrial complex has become all-pervasive in our society, to the point of pushing aside what was formerly the American way of life.

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By William Astore, Tomdispatch.com
Posted on February 6, 2008, Printed on February 6, 2008
Hardly a week passes in which we don’t hear about what the fallout from two disastrous wars is doing to the overextended, overstrained U.S. military, not to speak of the problems the armed forces are facing in retaining and recruiting members. [...]

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What progressives and other critics don’t get about the U.S. military.
William J. Astore
February 04, 2008
Recent polls suggest that Americans trust the military roughly three times as much as the president and five times as much as their elected representatives in Congress. The tenacity of this trust is both striking and disturbing. It’s striking because it [...]