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

By: Publication details: New York : Crown, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 275 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780307460981 (hbk.)
  • 0307460983 (hbk.)
  • 9780307461001 (ebk.)
  • 0307461009 (ebk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.2/70973 23
LOC classification:
  • UA23 .M17 2012
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.

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.

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