Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military

Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military, joins the show to talk about the state of civil-military relations in America, and to call for a truce on the issue of “wokism.” ▪️ Times      • 01:46 Introduction      • 2:40 Precedents     • 4:18 Citizen soldier to today      • 11:40 Expanding fissures     • 18:46 Downsides to a high approval rating     • 25:04 Isolationism and “wokeness”     • 33:56 Sloppy discourse     • 38:16 An echo of the ’90s     • 41:11 Progress     • 48:28 Race/Sexuality/Gender     • 55:03 A bit of Sparta in Athens Follow along  on Instagram Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack