The cost of loyalty : dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military /
Bakken, Tim,
The cost of loyalty : dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military / Tim Bakken. - xi, 386 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-368) and index.
Preface: the collapse -- Introduction: breaking the myth -- The origins of the separate world -- Unfounded hubris -- Conformity and cronyism -- one and the same -- Supreme values -- how loyalty creates dishonesty -- A culture of silence -- censorship and retaliation -- Criminality, abuse, and corruption -- Violence, torture, and war crimes -- The consequences of separation.
Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. Bakken makes the case that the culture has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them.
9781632868985 1632868989
United States Military Academy.
Sociology, Military--United States.
United States--Armed Forces.
United States--History, Military--20th century.
United States--History, Military--21st century.
The cost of loyalty : dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military / Tim Bakken. - xi, 386 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-368) and index.
Preface: the collapse -- Introduction: breaking the myth -- The origins of the separate world -- Unfounded hubris -- Conformity and cronyism -- one and the same -- Supreme values -- how loyalty creates dishonesty -- A culture of silence -- censorship and retaliation -- Criminality, abuse, and corruption -- Violence, torture, and war crimes -- The consequences of separation.
Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. Bakken makes the case that the culture has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them.
9781632868985 1632868989
United States Military Academy.
Sociology, Military--United States.
United States--Armed Forces.
United States--History, Military--20th century.
United States--History, Military--21st century.