Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent WarThe bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change |
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... military officers to the city of Jena in what had been the GDR. Our purpose was self-consciously educational—to ... U.S. military vernacular as “the trace.” In this regard, the trip proved nothing less than revelatory. The educational ...
America's Path to Permanent War Andrew Bacevich. its share, which I had done my best to suppress. I was, after all, a serving soldier. Except in the narrowest of terms, the military profession, in those days at least, did not look kindly ...
America's Path to Permanent War Andrew Bacevich. high office. Question its ... American statecraft. With regard to means, that tradition has emphasized activism ... military capabilities staggeringly in excess of those required for self ...
... American military power since World War II has been of a different order altogether. The United States has not specialized in any particular type of war. It has not adhered to a fixed tactical style. No single service or weapon has ...
... American Century. Similarly, the United States no longer possesses sufficient wherewithal to sustain a national security strategy that relies on global military presence and global power projection to underwrite a policy of global ...
Contents
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2 Illusions of Flexibility and Control | 59 |
3 The Credo Restored | 109 |
4 Reconstituting the Trinity | 146 |
5 Counterfeit COIN | 182 |
6 Cultivating Our Own Garden | 222 |
Notes | 251 |
Acknowledgments | 271 |
Index | 273 |
About the Author | 287 |
The American Empire Project | 289 |