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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow (Hardcover, 2012)
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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 Found-ers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of privateers ; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rust-ing 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's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. She offers up a fresh, unsparing appraisal of Reagan's radical presidency. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri-ously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a loud and jangly political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power--and who gets to make those decisions.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House USA INC International Concepts
ISBN-139780307460981
eBay Product ID (ePID)114446423
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SubjectGovernment
Publication Year2012
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameDrift: the Unmooring of American Military Power
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorRachel Maddow
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Width145 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorRachel Maddow
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- 29 Sep, 2021
Good overview and most relevant today
Excellent background research, in Ruth Maddow's typical narrative style, with facts and figures put into context even for today's reader. Anybody who watches The Ruth Maddow Show on MSNBC american news channel will know what a consummate journalist she is. Her books are readable and add to the historical background of what is happening in the USA today.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
