Three Army Lieutenant Colonels Write That Belief In American Exceptionalism Is Hurting The Military
November 19, 2013
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In the September-October of Military Review, a military thought journal published by the U.S. Army, three U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonels wrote a thought provoking piece entitled "The Myths We Soldiers Tell Ourselves, And The Harm These Myths Do." In the article, the three argue that at the heart of many of the military's problems are delusions about self that soldiers harbor based upon extrapolating American exceptionalism to mean personal exceptionalism. The authors say that this belief in national superiority eventually leads to a sense of unearned personal superiority over others, ultimately enabling necessary dehumanization of others that enable atrocities and war crimes, as well as potential problems for soldiers when they return home.
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