The U.S. Needs Soldiers, Not Warriors
Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring a warrior culture back to the Department of Defense. It’s a terrible idea.
Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot Cohen is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall, and co-host of the Shield of the Republic podcast. Cohen is also the author of Supreme Command, Conquered Into Liberty, The Big Stick, and other works on military history and national-security policy. He created the strategic-studies program at Johns Hopkins SAIS and served as the school’s ninth dean. He has also served as the counselor of the Department of State and in other positions in the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
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