Evening Lecture | James Fallows: What the Country Owes to Its Military, and Vice Versa

The speaker, a journalist for *The Atlantic*, examines the \"chicken hawk nation\" phenomenon: a societal disconnect where the U.S. public venerates the military symbolically while remaining indifferent to the strategic costs and systemic failures of warfare. He argues that this divide leads to careless foreign policy, inefficient spending, and a crisis of accountability.