The Culture Persists.

• Author: Shacochis, Bob
• Position: Military culture - Brief Article

What the President most seems to desire is the removal of images of atrocity (at the top of that list, scenes of lifeless American GIs dragged through the streets of some Third World dump like Mogadishu) and their substitution with images of virtue (soldiers helping hurricane victims in Honduras)--to replace war with operations other than war, an empty space in an army's traditional reality, where there are no friends and no enemies, no front or rear, no victories and, likewise, no defeats, and no true endings.... On average, he has ordered fired one cruise missile every...