The Pentagon and the Generals Wanted This Disastrous War

Tags: U.S. History

08/20/2021 Ryan McMaken

It’s not just the civilian politicians. For twenty years, the military itself pressed for more war, endlessly claiming that victory was right around the corner.

Original Article: “The Pentagon and the Generals Wanted This Disastrous War“

This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.