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The failure of humanitarian militarism

War — what is it good for? Achieving narrowly defined national security goals

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Aug 19, 2021
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(Turkish National Defence Ministry / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

When I was young, there was a big vogue for an idea often called “humanitarian intervention” which was basically the notion that rather than dismantling the Cold War project of global military hegemony, the United States could leverage global military domination in order to do …

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