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.
Record details
ISBN:9780307460981 (hc.)
ISBN:0307460983 (hc.)
Physical Description:print 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : Crown, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.