Drift : the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow.
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TextPublisher: New York : Crown, 2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 275 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780307460981 (hbk.); 0307460983 (hbk.); 9780307461001 (ebk.); 0307461009 (ebk.)Subject(s): 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-DDC classification: 306.270973 LOC classification: UA23 | .M17 2012| Item type | Current location | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.
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.
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.
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