Description: A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of conflict, helped fuel Islamist terror, and now threatens to bankrupt the nation. For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy, and the United States can no longer afford the dangers provoked. With a struggling economy biting at heels and international affairs in a precarious state of unprecedented scope, American citizens have to wonder; what’s happened? State vs. Defense characterizes figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme: America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic. In the tradition of classics such as The Wise Men, and The Best and the Brightest, State vs. Defense explores how and why American leaders succumbed to the sirens of militarism, how the republic has been lost to an empire, and how the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower so famously forewarned has set us on a stark path of financial peril.
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Features: Dust Jacket
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Format: Hardcover
Item Width: 5.2 in
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Item Length: 8 in
Item Height: 1.1 in
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Topic: Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Public Policy / Military Policy, History & Theory, Military / United States, International Relations / General, Economic Conditions, United States / 21st Century
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Language: English
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Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Book Title: State Vs. Defense : the Battle to Define America's Empire
Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults
Author: Stephen Glain
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
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Genre: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
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