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How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the PentagonBrooks, RosaThe 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 jacketType of material - book ; adult, seriousEdition - 1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed.Publication and manufacture - New York [etc.] : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2017Language - englishISBN - 978-1-4767-7787-0; 1-4767-7787-XCOBISS.SI-ID - 6089422
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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 |
United States |
Military policy |
United States |
History, Military |
20th century |
Anecdotes |
United States |
History, Military |
21st century |
Anecdotes |
obrambna politka |
vojaška politika |
vojaška zgodovina |
oborožene sile |
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