The Pentagon’s Dangerous Cult of Lethality
European leaders misjudged World War I. America shouldn’t repeat their mistake
7 min readNov 13, 2020
Virginia Woolf famously observed that sometime in the first decade of the 20th century — she arbitrarily chose December 1910 — human life was fundamentally transformed. That date is near the culmination of what Barbara Tuchman called a “century of the most…