After Vietnam, the United States sent its troops all over the world, fighting what Rudyard Kipling would have called “savage wars of peace.” In some of these little wars, it knocked off Cuban construction workers in Grenada, crashed helicopters in Iran, fatally landed marines in Lebanon, and strafed the Libyan ruling class in its tents, but essentially the U.S. army in the 1980s was a sound-and-light show, sent into harm’s way to tape re-election spots, not to alter any geopolitical balance. More

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