About The Cost of Loyalty A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law. The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military Tim Bakken. From the inability to win a war to the worst schools and rampant criminal activity (drugs, rapes, bribes, massacres), the military sets the worst example in every sphere. Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity.
Its actions lead to deaths in the millions. Given so many Americans today hold the US military in high esteem, the author's conclusions about the quality of US military leadership will come as a shock to many readers aTim Bakken, a former civilian professor at West Point and confirmed whistle blower, offers an eye-opening account of corruption, arrogance, and incompetence at the US premier military academies, in particular at West Point, that has had a devastating impact on the US military's ability to respond to contemporary challenges.
Its extravagance costs taxpayers trillions.Tim Bakken, a former civilian professor at West Point and confirmed whistle blower, offers an eye-opening account of corruption, arrogance, and incompetence at the US premier military academies, in particular at West Point, that has had a devastating impact on the US military's ability to respond to contemporary challenges. Given so many Americans today hold the US military in high esteem, the author's conclusions about the quality of US military leadership will come as a shock to many readers and they may be tempted to write off his conclusions as sour grapes.
Bakken places much blame on the service academies (West Point et al. A West Point professor deconstructs the many failures of America’s most beloved institution: the armed forces. the Korean War, the Vietnam War, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Bakken makes a strong case that the reason for these repeated failures is a decline in the performance of US military officers since WWII. Every president after Dwight Eisenhower has proclaimed unqualified esteem, and Congress, which last declared war in 1942, has surrendered its authority. After all, as Bakken pointedly observes, the US military has not won a single war in 75 years. With that being said, you cannot read this book and still think the army is an admirable organization in any sense.
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Warriors have always believed this, which is a mostly harmless situation unless they are calling the shots, which the author states is happening—and they are making a mess of it. 288 pages. They consider themselves a band of brothers, indispensable defenders of the nation, most of whose effete citizens lack their selfless dedication. Peter Fonda in his debut as director chose to make a movie about the American West, “The Hired Hand”.
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So why since World War II has the United States lost every subsequent military engagement, e.g. A must-read for veterans. THE COST OF LOYALTY DISHONESTY, HUBRIS, AND FAILURE IN THE U.S. MILITARY. West Point Professor Tim Bakken’s new book The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military traces a path of corruption, barbarism, violence, and unaccountability that makes its way from the United States’ military academies (West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs) to the top ranks of the U.S. military and U.S. governmental policy, and from there into a broader U.S. … Title notwithstanding, this latest from the National Book Award–winning author is no guidebook to getting woke.In fact, the word “woke” appears nowhere within its pages. Welcome back. ), mediocre institutions awash in money whose draconian discipline and teaching methods date from their founding.