The cost of loyalty : dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military /
Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The collapse
- Introduction: Breaking the myth
- The origins of the separate world
- Unfounded hubris
- Conformity and cronyism: one and the same
- Supreme values: how loyalty creates dishonesty
- A culture of silence: censorship and retaliation
- Criminality, abuse, and corruption
- Violence, torture, and war crimes
- The consequences of separation.