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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."
Author
Language
English
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Through examination of the American government over the last 50 years, Boston University professor and retired U.S. Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich explains why the American way of living is wholly dependent on a neverending state of war. With America's global dominance slowly fading away, Bacevich suggests that focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan should come second to focusing on domestic issues.
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
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thought provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For the world's 'indispensable nation, ' its 'sole superpower,...
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