A Fat, Comfortable Military Is a "Woke" Military

A Fat, Comfortable Military Is a “Woke” Military

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

11/20/2021 Ryan McMaken

The US military’s turn to “wokeness” is a result of decades of high military spending and public deference toward military “experts.” That gave us a military that is overfunded and highly political.

Original Article: “A Fat, Comfortable Military Is a “Woke” Military“

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