The Tom Woods Show, episode 754.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here.

We're turning our attention back to war and the military state today with Rosa Brooks, who is the author

of the brand new book, How Everything Became War and the Military became Everything,

Tales from the Pentagon.

Rosa Brooks is currently a tenured law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where

she's an expert on international law, constitutional law, human rights, and national security law.

She's authored dozens of scholarly articles on these subjects.

Her career has included work for international human rights NGOs, and she's spent several years as a high-level Pentagon official from 2009 to 2011, and she's got an

awful lot to say about the transformation of the American military state, particularly after 9-11.

Rosa Brooks, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Tom.

Well, that's quite a provocative title, isn't it? No doubt that's why he chose it.

But, you know, I guess when I first

heard about this book, I was expecting it to be, to lean a little bit more in the cultural direction.

Like, for instance, how did we get to a point that people in the military are revered to a

degree that's almost a caricature where every you go there's a military discount or every

football game there are military jets flying overhead and we're standing up on the airplane.

I mean, I'm 44 years old and I remember people being respectful toward folks in the military,

but something happened after 9-11,

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