The Marine Corps’ Fight to ‘Degrade and Defeat ISIS’ Using ‘Reagan-Flavored’ Kool-Aid
“We spend a lot of our time wondering, mostly alone, sometimes aloud,” writes a Marine officer, “if what we’re doing makes any difference, to anyone.”
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DonateJohn Vrolyk is a national security policy wonk and former active-duty Marine infantry officer. He is a veteran of the Defeat-ISIS campaign in Syria and a peacetime rotation to Darwin, Australia. He has written about great power competition, the paradoxes inherent in military service, gun control in America, and sailing the New England coast.
“We spend a lot of our time wondering, mostly alone, sometimes aloud,” writes a Marine officer, “if what we’re doing makes any difference, to anyone.”