“We used them for a couple of years and trained them to think nothing at all of killing or of being killed.”  That overlooked sentence from Smedley Butler’s exposé – “War Is a Racket” – hints at the racket’s components, for every successful racket must have...

What motivates patriots to enlist?  Patriots love the idea of America, yes, but first and foremost, they subordinate their love of the intangible to the tangible: their family, friends, and neighbors.  They believe in their fellow Americans so much that they’re not...