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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 453 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country's most respected voices on foreign affairs, offers an incisive critical history of this ongoing military enterprise--now more than thirty years old and with no end in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 238 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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."
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