{"id":6555,"date":"2010-08-03T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2011-01-19T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:59:24","slug":"redefining-national-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/03\/redefining-national-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining national self-defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With U.S. involvement in Iraq drawing down yet still under fire in Afghanistan, Americans are questioning the U.S. military&#8217;s role around the globe.\u00a0 International relations Professor <a title=\"Andrew Bacevich\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/bacevich\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Bacevich <\/a>offers some proposals for the future in his new book, &#8220;<a title=\"Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Washington-Rules-Americas-Permanent-American\/dp\/0805091416\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1275670801&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Washington Rules: America&#8217;s Path to Permanent War<\/em><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 In a <em>BU Today<\/em> <a title=\"Q&amp;A\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/11340\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A<\/a>, Bacevich outlines his 3-point shift in\u00a0principles that would justify the cost in money and blood of our military role globally.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6566\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/The-Pentagon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Pentagon\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>There\u2019s room for argument about what self-defense requires, and I\u2019d like to see the argument engaged in by the American public and leadership. The point is to challenge the common practice and expectation that global policing defines the mission for the armed forces. That purpose vastly outstrips the capabilities of U.S. forces and implies demands on our resources as a nation that we are unwilling and probably unable to provide.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Andrew Bacevich, 617-358-0194, <a href=\"mailto:bacevich@bu.edu\">bacevich@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With U.S. involvement in Iraq drawing down yet still under fire in Afghanistan, Americans are questioning the U.S. military&#8217;s role around the globe.\u00a0 International relations Professor Andrew Bacevich offers some proposals for the future in his new book, &#8220;Washington Rules: America&#8217;s Path to Permanent War.&#8221;\u00a0 In a BU Today Q&amp;A, Bacevich outlines his 3-point shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3159,3225,3444,2493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}