Drift The Unmooring of American Military Power

Name: Drift The Unmooring of American Military Power
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ISBN: 9780307460998

ISBN-10: 0307460991

ISBN-13: 9780307460998

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rachel Maddow

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The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war."One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow'sDriftargues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.13" wide x 7.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Prologue: Is If 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


Notes on Sources


Acknowledgments


Index