“Armies usually aren’t interested in wars.”

— Noam Chomsky

Interview by Hugh Gusterson, November 2000 http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/2002----.pdf. <br class="br">Quotes 2000s, 2002 <br class="br">Context: Armies usually aren’t interested in wars. They like preparation for war. But they have an understandable reluctance to fight a war. So I think if you look at, at least the history that I know, it’s usually the civilian leadership who is pushing the military to do something. It was the case in the early days of the Vietnam War.

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