Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
New York : Crown, [2012]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (275 pages)
Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.
Contents:
Prologue: Is it too late to descope this? -- G.I. Joe, Ho Chi Minh, and the American art of fighting about fighting -- A nation at peace everywhere in the world -- Let 'er fly -- Isle of spice -- Stupid regulations -- Mylanta, 'tis of thee -- Doing more with less (hassle) -- "One hell of a killing machine" -- An $8 trillion fungus among us -- Epilogue: You build it, you own it.
Subjects:
National security -- United States.
Militarism -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditures.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993.
National security -- United States.
Militarism -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditures.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993.
ISBN:
9780307461001
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