Most who brag of being self-made—to the point of believing their own rhetoric—sooner or later will find themselves self-unmade. Yet even in this, they will become an unmaking alongside all those of whom they took advantage in Violent Struggle.
Tag: self-deception
Honest Acknowledgment
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest
Ambition, Self-Promotion, & Military Demagoguery
The series will show how Petraeus was engaged from the beginning of the Iraq war in creating a myth about himself as a commander with
