"From Caesar’s Rome to Napoleon’s France, history shows that when a republic couples a large standing military with dysfunctional domestic politics, democracy doesn’t last long. The United States today meets both conditions. Historically, this has invited the type of political crisis that leads to military involvement (or even intervention) in domestic politics. The wide divide between the military and the citizens it serves is yet another inheritance from the war on terror."
Winning Ugly, What the War on Terror Cost America, By Elliot Ackerman
Cynthia Miller-Idriss points to the way resources have been allocated disproportionately externally rather than internally, while the internal cultural war has shifted long held beliefs in more global and liberal views.
From 9/11 to 1/6, The War on Terror Supercharged the Far Right, By Cynthia Miller-Idriss
While we've given our governments the tools and laws to control more surveillance than ever before
Resistance Is Futile, The War on Terror Supercharged State Power, By Thomas Hegghammer
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