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Drift the unmooring of American military power

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.

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  • "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."@en
  • "An exploration of Maddow's view that our culture's become deeply militarized, and that 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."
  • "In this book the author 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. Here she 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."
  • "'One of my favourite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier, ' Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other founding fathers could ever have envisaged 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 America has drifted away from its original ideals and become a nation weirdly."@en
  • "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 ..."

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