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Author Maddow, Rachel.

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

Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2012]
©2012

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.27 MADDOW    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  306.27 MADDOW    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  306.2 MAD    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  306.2 MAD    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.2 M26    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  306.2 MAD    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  306.2709 MADDOW    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  306.2 MAD    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  306.2 M    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Workroom  306.2 MADDOW    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 275 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
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-
ISBN 9780307460981: $25.00
0307460983
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