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  title info:
    title: Washington rules
    sub title: America's path to permanent war
  name:
    name part: Bacevich, Andrew J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 286 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just as in the Bush years, these beliefs remain unquestioned. In this vivid analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. He exposes the preconceptions, biases and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America's needs and desires--whether for cheap oil, cheap credit or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous.
  table of contents: Introduction: Slow learner -- The advent of semiwar -- Illusions of flexibility and control -- The credo restored -- Reconstituting the trinity -- Counterfeit COIN -- Cultivating our own garden.
  note: Andrew J. Bacevich.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-269) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Military policy
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Consensus (Social sciences)
    geographic: United States
  classification: JZ1480 .B335 2010
  classification: 355/.033573
  identifier: 9780805091410 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 0805091416 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2010006302
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100225
    record change date: 20151201154925.0
    record identifier: in00002602422