National Security

The First Time an American President Asked Men to Die in a Foreign War

Of Heroes and Chicken Hawks

It was an obscure but deadly firefight in a far-off land, a hundred years ago. Ever since the burden has been: is it worth it? Too often, it wasn’t.

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