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45. Daniel A. Sjursen, “American History for Truthdiggers: Tragic Dawn.”
46. Ibid.
47. Sjursen, “Long Shadow.”
48. Michael C. C. Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
49. Daniel A. Sjursen, “The Impeachment Show: Asking All the Wrong Questions on Ukraine,” Antiwar.com, January 27, 2020, original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/01/26/the-impeachment-show-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-on-ukraine.
50. Ken Hughes, “‘Take on the F**king Demonstrators’: Nixon, Vietnam and the Politics of Polarization,” Salon, September 27, 2017, salon.com/2017/09/27/take-on-the-fing-demonstrators-nixon-vietnam-and-the-politics-of-polarization.
51. Dennis Laich, Skin in the Game: Poor Kids and Patriots (iUniverse, 2013).
52. Daniel A. Sjursen, “Niger, America’s Forgotten Soldiers and Another Nameless War,” Hill, October 6, 2017, thehill.com/opinion/national-security/354281-niger-americas-forgotten-soldiers-and-another-nameless-war.
53. “U.S. and Allied Wounded,” Costs of War Project, Brown University, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/wounded.
54. Daniel A. Sjursen, “Was Ending the Draft a Grave Mistake?” Truthdig, April 3, 2019, truthdig.com/articles/was-ending-the-draft-a-grave-mistake.
55. Dennis Laich and Lawrence Wilkerson, “The Deep Unfairness of America’s All-Volunteer Force,” American Conservative, October 16, 2017, theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-deep-unfairness-of-americas-all-volunteer-force.
56. Daniel A. Sjursen, “The ‘Adults’ in the Room Are the Problem,” Nation, December 27, 2018, thenation.com/article/archive/the-adults-in-the-room-are-the-problem.
57. Ebenezer Huntington, “Letters of Ebenezer Huntington, 1774–1781,” American Historical Review 5, no. 4 (1900): 702–29, accessed at jstor.org/stable/1832776.
58. George Washington to Henry Lee, Oct. 31st, 1786, The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, accessed at shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/shaysapp/person.do?shortName=george_washington.
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62. Ibid., 139.
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64. Daniel A. Sjursen, “Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Why No Retired Generals Oppose America’s Forever Wars,” TomDispatch, February 20, 2020, tomdispatch.com/authors/dannysjursen/index.php?pos=1; Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1998).
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66. Ibid.
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70. George R. Altman and Leo Shane III, “Libertarians and independents are eroding the GOP’s military support,” Military Times, September 23, 2016, militarytimes.com/news/2016/09/23/libertarians-and-independents-are-eroding-the-gop-s-military-support.
71. Liesel Kershul, “The US Military Is a Socialist Organization,” Nation, November 4, 2019, thenation.com/article/archive/socialism-united-states-military.
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79. Mayers, 105.
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89. Ibid.
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About the Author
Daniel A. Sjursen is a retired US Army major and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, the Nation, Truthdig, TomDispatch, the Huffington Post, and the Hill, among other publications. He served combat tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at his alma mater, West Point. He is the author of a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge. He cohosts the progressive veterans’ podcast Fortress on a Hill. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Follow him on Twitter at @SkepticalVet.
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