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I'm John Emmins, intern at LawFair, with an episode from the LawFair Archive for June 3rd, 2023.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and rising the US-China competition have rapidly changed American

understandings of the threat of war and the role of the military in the post-911 era.

To consider how things have changed in recent years, for this week's Archive episode,

I selected an episode from October 2016 in which Benjamin Wittis set out Rosa Brooks to discuss her book,

how everything became war and the military became everything, tales from the Pentagon.

Wittis and Brooks discussed her time as a civilian adviser at the Pentagon,

the history of the laws of war, the expanded role of the American military in a time

in which the lines between war and peace are increasingly uncertain,

and if it is desirable or even possible to rethink the distinction between war and time and peace time.

I'm Quinted Dressick and this is the LawFair podcast, October 1st, 2016.

That was Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown University, a columnist at foreign policy,

and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.

She joined Benjamin Wittis at the Hoover Book Swarray this past week to talk about her new book,

how everything became war and the military became everything, tales from the Pentagon.

The two discussed the increased role of the military in an uncertain world,

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