Phil Klay on the Invisibility of Endless War

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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“War remains a large part of who we are as Americans,” writes Phil Klay, who notes that almost a sixth of our federal budget goes to defense, supporting a military that now wages counterterrorism campaigns in 85 countries. But those overseas wars are invisible to most Americans because they’re fought by so few and because of political and strategic choices that shield them from public view. We’ll talk to Klay, an award-winning fiction writer and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, about the chasm between the military and civilian experience and what our wars say about us as Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3	The U.S. is now waging counter-terror campaigns in 85 countries. And if you didn't know that,
0:57.0	it's not surprising. Our overseas wars are invisible to most Americans because they're fought
1:03.2	by so few and because of political and strategic choices to shield them from public view.
1:09.7	Phil Clay is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and an award-winning
1:12.3	fiction writer. And in a new book of essays, he grapples with the chasm between the military
1:17.2	and civilian experience and with what our wars say about us as Americans. Welcome to Forum.
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