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Author:
Maddow, Rachel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002008919
Title:
Drift : the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow.
Edition:
First paperback edition.
Publisher:
Broadway Paperbacks,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
275 pages ; 21 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-
Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.
International relations.
Militarism.
Military policy.
National security.
Political culture.
Political science.
United States.
Since 1989
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-261) and index.
Contents:
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 -- You build it, you own it.
Summary:
An exploration of Maddow's view that our culture's become deeply militarized, and that 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:
9780307460998
0307460991
OCLC:
(OCoLC)801440822
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

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