Drift : the unmooring of American military power /
Maddow, Rachel.
Drift : the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown, c2012. - 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.
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.
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.
9780307460981 (hbk.) 0307460983 (hbk.) 9780307461001 (ebk.) 0307461009 (ebk.)
2012000998
National security--United States.
Militarism--United States.
Political culture--United States.
United States--Military policy.
United States--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.
United States--Foreign relations--1989-
United States--Politics and government--1989-
UA23 / .M17 2012
306.2/70973
Drift : the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown, c2012. - 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.
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.
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.
9780307460981 (hbk.) 0307460983 (hbk.) 9780307461001 (ebk.) 0307461009 (ebk.)
2012000998
National security--United States.
Militarism--United States.
Political culture--United States.
United States--Military policy.
United States--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.
United States--Foreign relations--1989-
United States--Politics and government--1989-
UA23 / .M17 2012
306.2/70973