Chelsea Manning shared secrets with WikiLeaks. Now she's telling her own story (Dave Davies; Fresh Air podcast)

So we would just be spinning our wheels more and more, like if you're stuck in a ditch and you run the engine and you try to go faster, but you end up digging deeper. That was what was happening. And I kept seeing this again and again. And it was very clear that the approaches of counterinsurgency warfare were extremely self-destructive.

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https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129416671/chelsea-manning-wikileaks-memoir-readme