How everything became war and the military became everything: tales from the Pentagon
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
2016
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Language:
English
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The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions--but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. When Rosa Brooks gave her family a tour, her mother gaped at the glossy window displays: "So the heart of American military power is a shopping mall?" In a sense, yes: the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems. Today's military personnel analyze computer code, train Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol the seas for pirates. Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective. She is a former top Pentagon official and the daughter of antiwar protesters; a human rights activist and the wife of an Army Special Forces officer. Her book is by turns a memoir, a work of journalism, and a scholarly exploration of history, anthropology, and law. But at its heart it is a rallying cry, for Brooks shows that when the war machine breaks out of its borders, we undermine the values and rules that keep our world from sliding toward chaos. And as we pile new tasks onto the military, we make it increasingly ill-prepared for the threats America faces. Brooks sounds an alarm, forcing us to see how the collapsing barriers between war and peace threaten both America and the world. And time is running out to make things right.--From dust jacket.
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Anecdotes
Armed Forces
Armed Forces -- Operations other than war
Government policy
History, Military
Just war doctrine
Militarism
Militarism -- United States
Military policy
National security
National security -- United States
Operations other than war
Philosophy
Prevention
Strategic culture
Strategic culture -- United States
Terrorism
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes
United States -- Military policy
War (International law)
War (International law) -- Philosophy
Armed Forces
Armed Forces -- Operations other than war
Government policy
History, Military
Just war doctrine
Militarism
Militarism -- United States
Military policy
National security
National security -- United States
Operations other than war
Philosophy
Prevention
Strategic culture
Strategic culture -- United States
Terrorism
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes
United States -- Military policy
War (International law)
War (International law) -- Philosophy
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9781476777870
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