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Drift : the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow.

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Author/Creator:
Maddow, Rachel.
Language:
English
Imprint:
1st ed. - New York : Crown, c2012.
Format:
  • Book
  • 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) 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.
Subjects:
ISBN:
9780307460981
0307460983
9780307461001
0307461009

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