Max Brooks on veterans, hope, and the antidote to despair
The president just took the biggest strategic loss in a generation, the regime in Tehran is still standing, thirteen American troops are dead, and now he's eyeing Cuba. This is the moment Max Brooks has been writing about his whole career: institutional collapse in slow motion, and ordinary citizens left to figure out how to survive it. If you're in the angry middle, this one is for you.
The Iran operation is being called the biggest American strategic loss in a generation, and the receipts are damning. Thirteen service…
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Max Brooks on why veterans are the antidote to civic despair. Max Brooks on why veterans are the antidote to civic despair
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