Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, (Macmillan, 2021) Can a “humane” war ever be fought? Or is such a question doomed to irrelevance by an innate contradiction in its terms? These are two of the driving questions in Samuel Moyn’s Humane, a polemic against the US-led march into anContinue reading “Does the “Good Fight” Exist? Ethics and the Future of War”
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Military Leaders Need the Liberal Arts
A liberal arts school; Officer Candidate School. These two places connote starkly different environments. One is associated with poetry readings and well-landscaped quads; the other evokes imagery of screaming drill instructors and lots of burpees. I had these experiences back-to-back, and while it was a startling juxtaposition, I now appreciate the synergy between these twoContinue reading “Military Leaders Need the Liberal Arts”
Nicholas J. Romanow 