U.S. military leadership displayed intellectual insensitivity after World War II.

Evidence

By the second decade after World War II, the dominant characteristics of the senior leadership of the American armed forces had become professional arrogance, lack of imagination, and moral and intellectual insensitivity. … The elite of America had become stupefied by too much money, too many material resources, too much power, and too much success. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 772

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 772
• XREF: connects to: US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28; Post-war leadership scholarship pathologized strong leaders and stripped agency from followers. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 19

Broader Connections

• US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. #corroborates (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28