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Drift : the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maddow, Rachel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- United States.
- United States--Military policy.
- Military policy.
- United States--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.
- Armed Forces.
- Expenditures, Public.
- Militarism--United States.
- Militarism.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- International relations.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, [2012]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307460981
- 0307460983
- OCLC:
- 765967335
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