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Author:

Maddow, Rachel.

Title:

Drift : the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Crown,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

275 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

National security--United States.
United States--Military policy.
United States--Appropriations and expenditures.--Appropriations and expenditures.
Militarism--United States.
Political culture--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--1989-
United States--Politics and government--1989-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0307461009 (ebook)
9780307461001 (ebook)
0307460983
9780307460981

OCLC:

(OCoLC)765967335

LCCN:

2012000998

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