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01924aam a22003133 4500 001 4BDE50CA1E5011E6B2133BA4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160520010127 008 140116s2014 xx 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781250055385 020 $a 1250055385 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d MIS $d SILO 050 $a E181 $b .B15 2013 100 1 $a Bacevich, Andrew J. 245 10 $a Breach of trust : $b how americans failed their soldiers and their country / $c Andres J. Bacevich. 260 $a New York, New York : $b Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company $c 2014. 300 $a xii, 238p. $c 22cm. 520 $a Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Rather than something for "other people" to do, Bacevich argues that national defense should become the business of "we the people." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [197] - 224) and index. 505 $a Nation at war. People's war ; The great decoupling ; Tallying up -- Warrior's plight. America's army ; Comes the revolution ; Searching for dragons to slay ; Coping with chaos -- Skin in the game. Smedley and friends ; Winners and losers ; Trahison des clercs ; Droning on ; American characters. 650 $a United States $x 21st century. $x 21st century. 650 $a United States $x 20th century. $x 20th century. 650 $a Citizenship $x United States. 650 $a Military service, Voluntary $x United States. 650 $a National security $x United States. $x United States. 650 $a War and society $x United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20160520010939.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4BDE50CA1E5011E6B2133BA4DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search