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Retired colonel says American military needs to be more accountable

A critic of American military intervention is in Missoula to deliver a talk in the President's lecture series at the University of Montana. Andrew Bacevich  is a retired Army colonel, author and historian who teaches international relations and history at Boston University.

In this feature interview, Bacevich talks with News Director Sally Mauk about what he calls the "new American militarism".

"I suspect if we at random grabbed 10 people on the street here in Missoula and said 'what do you think of the Iraq war?' I doubt any would say it was a rousing success."

[ Andrew Bacevich will give a free, public lecture on the new American militarism, Wednesday evening, March 12th, at 8 o'clock in the Dennison theater on the University of Montana campus.]

Retired in 2014 but still a presence at MTPR, Sally Mauk is a University of Kansas graduate and former wilderness ranger who has reported on everything from the Legislature to forest fires.
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