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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
Description |
viii, 438 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective-that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and a human rights activist married to an Army Green Beret. Her experiences lead her to an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear, we risk destroying America’s founding values and the laws and institutions we’ve built-and undermining the international rules and organizations that keep our world from sliding towards chaos. If Russia and China have recently grown bolder in their foreign adventures, it’s no accident; US precedents have paved the way for the increasingly unconstrained use of military power by states around the globe. Meanwhile, we continue to pile new tasks onto the military, making it increasingly ill-prepared for the threats America will face in the years to come" --from Amazon. |
Contents |
Tremors -- The new American way of war -- Pirates! -- Wanna go to Gitmo? -- Lawyers with guns -- The full spectrum -- The secret war -- Future warfare -- What's an army for? -- What we've made it -- How we got here -- Putting war into a box -- Taming war -- An optimistic enterprise -- Making war -- Making the state -- Un-making sovereignty -- Making the military -- An age of uncertainty -- Counting the costs -- Car bombs and radioactive sushi -- War everywhere, law nowhere? -- Institutional costs -- Managing war's paradoxes. |
Subject(S) |
Strategic culture -- United States.
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War (International law) -- Philosophy.
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Armed Forces -- Operations other than war.
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Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
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Just war doctrine.
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National security -- United States.
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Militarism -- United States.
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United States -- Military policy.
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United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
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Anecdotes.
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Added Title |
Tales from the Pentagon |
ISBN |
9781476777863 (hardcover) |
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1476777861 (hardcover) |
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9781476777870 (paperback) |
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147677787X (paperback) |
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