I was reading the novelist Ursula K. Le Guin and came across the following commentary by her:“A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media … War as a moral metaphor is...

Sixty Years of B-52s (U.S. Air Force photo)Perhaps there should be a “new rule” on the American military scene: When the B-52s are called out (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan), it means America has well and truly lost.Unbeknownst to most Americans, since April of this...