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Author:

Bakken, Tim, author.

Title:

The cost of loyalty : dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military / Tim Bakken.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 386 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Sociology, Military--United States.
United States--Armed Forces.
United States--History, Military--20th century.
United States--History, Military--21st century.
United States Military Academy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-368) and index.

Summary:

Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. Bakken makes the case that the culture has has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them.

ISBN:

1632868989
9781632868985

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1140072896

LCCN:

bl2020000233

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)