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Author Maddow, Rachel.

Title Drift [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2012]
©2012
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Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1538463~S1
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Description 1 online resource (275 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject National security -- United States.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditures.
Militarism -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc.
Other Form: Print version: Maddow, Rachel. Drift. 1st ed. New York : Crown, c2012 9780307460981 (DLC) 2012000998 (OCoLC)765967335
ISBN 9780307461001 (electronic bk.)
0307461009 (electronic bk.)
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