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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN LETHALITY
Description: When you're more focused on lethality you're less likely to look at ways the military can act to support things that will maybe avoid war in the first place
During his tenure as the Secretary of Defense, James N. Mattis frequently used the term lethality in describing all aspects of the U.S. Department of Defense. It was described as a desired endstate for all acquisitions, it was the subject of criticism in the world of joint Professional Military Education, and service secretaries and chief were given carte blanche to eliminate or restructure anything that hindered or didn't contribute to...