Former US Defense Secretary: Pentagon responsible for disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - Former interim defense secretary Christopher C. Miller said the United States must recognize the country's top military leaders as responsible for the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Miller, who served as US secretary of defense from Nov. 9, 2020 to Jan. 20, 2021, wrote in "Soldier Secretary," a memoir released this week, that the U.S. military-industrial complex has now become a "hydra-headed monster" with "basically no brakes on America's war machine." “The more I thought, the more horrified I was,” Miller wrote, The Hill reported on Thursday. "We invaded a sovereign nation, killed and maimed many Iraqis, and lost some of the greatest patriotic Americans who ever lived, all over one bloody lie." The book "Soldier Secretary" offers insight into the life of an American soldier who rose to the top of the Pentagon as he grew increasingly outraged by the hunger for death and destruction of the US military-industrial complex abroad.