From Andrew Bacevich, “Winning: Trump Loves to Do It, But American Generals Have Forgotten How,” tomdispatch.com:
Absent accountability, failings and weaknesses escape notice. Eventually, what you’ve become accustomed to seems tolerable. Twenty-first century Americans inured to wars that never end have long since forgotten that bringing such conflicts to a prompt and successful conclusion once defined the very essence of what generals were expected to do.
