One thing for sure, one needn't be of the military to be militarist as, often is the case in the West, the civilian leadership(or puppetry of the oligarchy) tend to be more militarist, whereas a considerable number of military men often warn against excess adventurism. It goes against the grain of the popular narrative(via academia... Read More

One way to delineate the Left vs. Right divide is as a clash between the Ideal and the Real, between the Utopian and the Pragmatic. Or between the experienced and the untested, in the sense that even what had begun as utopianism became, over time, 'established' with a set of dogma and sense of limits,... Read More