How everything became war and the military became everything tales from the Pentagon
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 th...
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Simon & Schuster,
2016.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of 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.
