- National security, Voluntary Military service, Social, War and society
Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Rather than something for "other people" to do, Bacevich argues that national defense should become the business of "we the people."
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Andrew J. Bacevich, Sean Runnette
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Picador, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, Macmillan Audio
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781427237606
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