Quotes by Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

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...And unpredictability can spread: one powerful outlier can pave the way for others, and as more states joint the outli — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
I don't believe that humans can be reduced to homo economicus, but as a group, government officials are remarkably sensi — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally turn the truism a — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too. — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all—and keeping in — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise and relatio — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon