Breach of trust
Subtitle: how Americans failed their soldiers and their country
By: Andrew J. Bacevich
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780805082968
Subjects: National security; Voluntary Military service; Social; War and society; Military History; Sacrifice; Citizenship
Description: Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Rather than something for "other people" to do, Bacevich argues that national defense should become the business of "we the people."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.