Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (Unabridged) Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (Unabridged)

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.

"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rust­ing nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.

Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. She offers up a fresh, unsparing appraisal of Reagan's radical presidency. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our political discourse.

Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri­ously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a "loud and jangly" political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power--and who gets to make those decisions.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
RM
Rachel Maddow
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:31
hr min
RELEASED
2012
March 27
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
484
MB

Customer Reviews

JWStewartIV ,

Fantastic read. American Industrial Complex explained

Love this book. I’ve read it 3X. Incredible research and storytelling. It should be required reading in every classroom.

Mr Cheesarito ,

Made me yawn nonstop

I can’t believe this book got published; such a bad read.

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