TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maddow,Rachel
TI  - Drift: the unmooring of American military power 
SN  - 9780307460981 (hbk.)
AV  - UA23 .M17 2012
U1  - 306.2/70973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown
KW  - National security
KW  - United States
KW  - Militarism
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Appropriations and expenditures
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1989-
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -