Breach of trust : how Americans failed their soldiers and their country /
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 so...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | American empire project.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xii, 238 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780805082968 : 0805082964 |