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Brooks, Rosa
Subjects
Strategic culture -- United States.
War (International law) -- Philosophy.
Armed Forces -- Operations other than war.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
Just war doctrine.
National security -- United States.
Militarism -- United States.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
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Brooks, Rosa
Strategic culture -- United States.
War (International law) -- Philosophy.
Armed Forces -- Operations other than war.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
Just war doctrine.
National security -- United States.
Militarism -- United States.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
MARC Display
How everything became war and the
military
became everything : tales from the Pentagon / Rosa Brooks.
by
Brooks, Rosa
Simon & Schuster, c2016.
Call #:
355.033573 B873h
Subjects
Strategic culture
--
United
States
.
War (International law)
--
Philosophy.
Armed Forces
--
Operations other than war.
Terrorism
--
Prevention
--
Government policy
--
United
States
.
Just war doctrine.
National security
--
United
States
.
Militarism
--
United
States
.
United
States
--
Military
policy.
United
States
--
History
,
Military
--
20th
century
--
Anecdotes
.
United
States
--
History
,
Military
--
21st
century
--
Anecdotes
.
ISBN:
9781476777863 (hc.)
1476777861 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
viii, 438 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index.
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.
Summary:
"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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