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Author:

Brooks, Rosa, author.

Title:

How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon / Rosa Brooks.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 437 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Strategic culture--United States.
War (International law)--Philosophy.
Armed Forces--Operations other than war.
Terrorism--Government policy--Government policy--United States.
Just war doctrine.
National security--United States.
Militarism--United States.
United States--Military policy.
United States--History, Military--20th century--Anecdotes.
United States--History, Military--21st century--Anecdotes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Tremors -- The new American way of war -- Pirates! -- Wanna go to Gitmo? -- Lawyers with guns -- The full spectrum -- The secret war -- Future warfare -- What's an army for? -- What we've made it -- How we got here -- Putting war into a box -- Taming war -- An optimistic enterprise -- Making war -- Making the state -- Un-making sovereignty -- Making the military -- An age of uncertainty -- Counting the costs -- Car bombs and radioactive sushi -- War everywhere, law nowhere? -- Institutional costs -- Managing war's paradoxes.

ISBN:

147677787X (pbk.)
9781476777870 (pbk.)
1476777861 (hardcover)
9781476777863 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2016005348

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