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What does it mean?
Kissinger is quoted describing military personnel as expendable tools for foreign policy goals.
In plain terms
Soldiers are seen as tools for policy goals.
What can you take from it?
Military assets may be viewed as expendable.

Where it applies

  • military ethics
  • policy debate

Putting it to work

  • debating military role
  • reviewing policy ethics

Questions to consider

  • Are soldiers tools?
  • What is the role of military?

Another view

It presents a harsh, dehumanizing view of soldiers.

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