Quotes About Andrew J. Bacevich

The Weinberger Doctrine created a series of tests, in essence preconditions for any policy decision that might put American troops into harm's way.

Indeed, Greenspan deemed it "fortunate" that "policy decisions in the U.S. have been largely replaced by global market forces," so much so that "national security aside, it hardly makes any difference" whom Americans installed in the White House.9

As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist—particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic—were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.

Even as U.S. policy in recent decades has become progressively militarized, so too has the Vietnam-induced gap separating the U.S. military from American society persisted and perhaps even widened.47