Breach of Trust How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country |
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| Author:
| Bacevich, Andrew |
| Series title: | American Empire Project Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-250-05538-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Picador
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.00 |
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A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author ofThe Limits of Power andWashington Rules The United States has been "at war" for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary citizens, as former secretary of defense Robert Gates has acknowledged, armed...
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A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author ofThe Limits of Power andWashington Rules
The United States has been "at war" for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary citizens, as former secretary of defense Robert Gates has acknowledged, armed conflict has become an "abstraction" and military service "something for other people to do." InBreach of Trust, bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the damage this disconnect has wrought.
National defense, he argues, should become the business of "we the people." Should Americans refuse to shoulder this responsibility, the prospect of endless war, waged by a "foreign legion" of professionals and contractor-mercenaries, beckons. So too does bankruptcy--moral as well as fiscal.