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Sen. Cotton Challenges the Left’s Psy-War Assault on the US Military

Sen. Cotton Challenges the Left’s Psy-War Assault on the US Military
A soldier saluting the American flag. Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP
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The psychological-warfare attack—its script straight from the Antifa/Black Lives Matter version of the Cold War’s Marxist playbook—began in January when the predictable chorus of hard-left hacks in academia, media, and government vilified the American military with toxic allegations calculated to demoralize military personnel, sow destructive institutional suspicion, and undermine command authority with the goal of weakening U.S. national security.

Austin Bay
Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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