Rachel Maddow Talks Innovation in How We Go to War at SxSW

Speaking to a tech crowd at SxSW, Rachel Maddow used the stage to advance the argument she made in her bestselling book Drift. She categorized the public's increasing exclusion from the decision to go to war, the point of the book, as innovation.

Rachel Maddow used her platform at SxSW to advance the argument she made in her bestselling book Drift. She categorized the public’s increasing exclusion from the decision to go to war, the point of the book, as innovation.

Ronald Reagan “innovat[ed] in the particular field of going to war without Congress knowing about it,” Maddow said.

“We’ve changed our way of going to war, essentially so it’s not so much of a hassle anymore,” she said.

Specifically, using private contractors and the C.I.A.

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