passing trend or is it going to last we're earlier from our new york studio i caught up with tom engelhardt editor of tom dispatch and co-founder of the american empire project and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's now i first asked him what he made of the fact the general that are currently leading our wars have become the main media actors making strategies public leaking documents and speaking out more than our president. yes it's an extraordinary a new development i would say and it's and it's been a long time in coming if you remember with the first gulf war we had our our the war was narrated basically on t.v. on the news by retired generals who were often. telling the the story of how the generals they had worked with were the younger generals who were fighting so you knew you had the development of retired generals but the with this with the afghan war in particular in the later stages of the iraq war you have something new which is which is the actual commanding generals of the war begin to narrate the war in more or less real time and they do it as d

sitting down with tom engelhardt tom dispatch dot com a blog described as a regular antidote to the mainstream media and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's sir thank you for sitting down with us today. but let us just start off by taking a look.

dollars on military operations abroad that's according to antiwar activist blogger and author tom engelhardt who's been speaking to archie in his interview is up next. sitting down with tom engelhardt tom dispatch dot com a blog described as a regular antidote to the mainstream media and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's sir thank you for sitting down with us to be here at latest to start off by taking a look at the extent of the u.s. military presence throughout the world right now it's global i mean that's the first thing you can say the pentagon is a little hard to tell in detail the pentagon.

or to sitting down with tom engelhardt tom dispatch dot com a blog described as a regular antidote to the mainstream media and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's sir thank you for sitting down with us to be here i'd like us to start off by taking a look at the extent of the u.s. military presence throughout the world right now it's global.

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billions of dollars on military operations abroad so says anti-war activist blogger and author tom engelhardt his interview is coming your way in a few moments coming up right here on r.t. one. sir thank you for sitting down with us today good to be here i'd like us to start off by taking a look at the extent of the u.s. military presence throughout the world right now it's global i mean that's the first thing you can say the pentagon is a little hard to tell in detail the pentagon usually that mit's to about a year early to about eight hundred military bases or sites from macro to micro but in their count they don't include anything in a war zone and tom dispatch you know we've done some reporting for instance on the afghan war the present afghan war zone where we have upwards of four hundred bases again from tiny combat outposts to a normal basically american towns with boardwalks with fast food joints and whatever that we just built more or less from scratch it's an awful lot it's an imperial presence of a kind i don't think we've ever seen in history and it's particularly strange because

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