{"id":98765,"date":"2017-09-18T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=98765"},"modified":"2017-09-17T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T10:58:44","slug":"the-politics-of-military-ascendancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/09\/the-politics-of-military-ascendancy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Military Ascendancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>15 Sep 2017 &#8211; Clearly<em> the US has escalated the pivotal role of the military in the making of foreign and, by extension, domestic policy. The rise of \u2018the Generals\u2019 to strategic positions in the Trump regime is evident, deepening its role as a highly autonomous force determining US strategic policy agendas.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this paper we will discuss the advantages that the military elite accumulate from the war agenda and the reasons why \u2018the Generals\u2019 have been able to impose their definition of international realities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/PetrasPoliticsMilitaryAscendancy.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/James-Petras.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/James-Petras.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, <\/em><em>La Jornada<\/em><em>, and previously, for the Spanish daily, <\/em><em>El Mundo<\/em><em>. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/?p=2155\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras.lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Sep 2017 &#8211; Clearly the US has escalated the pivotal role of the military in the making of foreign and, by extension, domestic policy. The rise of \u2018the Generals\u2019 to strategic positions in the Trump regime is evident, deepening its role as a highly autonomous force determining US strategic policy agendas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militarism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}