Drift
Subtitle: the unmooring of American military power
By: Rachel Maddow
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780307460981; 9780307461001
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; National security; Appropriations and expenditures; Military policy; Militarism; Foreign relations; Armed Forces
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Is It Too Late to Descope This?; title: G.I. Joe, Ho Chi Minh, and the American Art of Fighting About Fighting; title: A Nation at Peace Everywhere in the World; title: Let 'Er Fly; title: Isle of Spice; title: Stupid Regulations; title: Mylanta, 'Tis of Thee; title: Doing More with Less (Hassle); title: "One Hell of a Killing Machine"; title: An $8 Trillion Fungus Among Us; title: Epilogue: You Build It, You Own It.