The Resource How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon, Rosa Brooks
How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon, Rosa Brooks
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- Summary
- The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions--but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. When Rosa Brooks gave her family a tour, her mother gaped at the glossy window displays: "So the heart of American military power is a shopping mall?" In a sense, yes: the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems. Today's military personnel analyze computer code, train Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol the seas for pirates. Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective. She is a former top Pentagon official and the daughter of antiwar protesters; a human rights activist and the wife of an Army Special Forces officer. Her book is by turns a memoir, a work of journalism, and a scholarly exploration of history, anthropology, and law. But at its heart it is a rallying cry, for Brooks shows that when the war machine breaks out of its borders, we undermine the values and rules that keep our world from sliding toward chaos. And as we pile new tasks onto the military, we make it increasingly ill-prepared for the threats America faces. Brooks sounds an alarm, forcing us to see how the collapsing barriers between war and peace threaten both America and the world. And time is running out to make things right.--From dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 438 pages
- Contents
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- Tremors
- The new American way of war
- Pirates!
- Wanna go to Gitmo?
- Lawyers with guns
- The full spectrum
- The secret war
- Future warfare
- What's an army for?
- What we've made it
- How we got here
- Putting war into a box
- Taming war
- An optimistic enterprise
- Making war
- Making the state
- Un-making sovereignty
- Making the military
- An age of uncertainty
- Counting the costs
- Car bombs and radioactive sushi
- War everywhere, law nowhere?
- Institutional costs
- Managing war's paradoxes
- Isbn
- 9781476777870
- Label
- How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon
- Title
- How everything became war and the military became everything
- Title remainder
- tales from the Pentagon
- Statement of responsibility
- Rosa Brooks
- Subject
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- Just war doctrine
- Militarism -- United States
- National security -- United States
- Strategic culture -- United States
- Terrorism -- Prevention | Government policy -- United States
- Anecdotes
- United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes
- United States -- Military policy
- War (International law) -- Philosophy
- United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- Armed Forces -- Operations other than war
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions--but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. When Rosa Brooks gave her family a tour, her mother gaped at the glossy window displays: "So the heart of American military power is a shopping mall?" In a sense, yes: the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems. Today's military personnel analyze computer code, train Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol the seas for pirates. Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective. She is a former top Pentagon official and the daughter of antiwar protesters; a human rights activist and the wife of an Army Special Forces officer. Her book is by turns a memoir, a work of journalism, and a scholarly exploration of history, anthropology, and law. But at its heart it is a rallying cry, for Brooks shows that when the war machine breaks out of its borders, we undermine the values and rules that keep our world from sliding toward chaos. And as we pile new tasks onto the military, we make it increasingly ill-prepared for the threats America faces. Brooks sounds an alarm, forcing us to see how the collapsing barriers between war and peace threaten both America and the world. And time is running out to make things right.--From dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brooks, Rosa
- Dewey number
- 355/.033573
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- UA23
- LC item number
- .B7837 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- Strategic culture
- War (International law)
- Armed Forces
- Terrorism
- Just war doctrine
- National security
- Militarism
- United States
- United States
- Label
- How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon, Rosa Brooks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Tremors -- The new American way of war -- Pirates! -- Wanna go to Gitmo? -- Lawyers with guns -- The full spectrum -- The secret war -- Future warfare -- What's an army for? -- What we've made it -- How we got here -- Putting war into a box -- Taming war -- An optimistic enterprise -- Making war -- Making the state -- Un-making sovereignty -- Making the military -- An age of uncertainty -- Counting the costs -- Car bombs and radioactive sushi -- War everywhere, law nowhere? -- Institutional costs -- Managing war's paradoxes
- Control code
- 1675213
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 438 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476777870
- Lccn
- 2016005348
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1675213
- (OCoLC)940795371
- Label
- How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon, Rosa Brooks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Tremors -- The new American way of war -- Pirates! -- Wanna go to Gitmo? -- Lawyers with guns -- The full spectrum -- The secret war -- Future warfare -- What's an army for? -- What we've made it -- How we got here -- Putting war into a box -- Taming war -- An optimistic enterprise -- Making war -- Making the state -- Un-making sovereignty -- Making the military -- An age of uncertainty -- Counting the costs -- Car bombs and radioactive sushi -- War everywhere, law nowhere? -- Institutional costs -- Managing war's paradoxes
- Control code
- 1675213
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 438 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476777870
- Lccn
- 2016005348
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1675213
- (OCoLC)940795371
Subject
- Just war doctrine
- Militarism -- United States
- National security -- United States
- Strategic culture -- United States
- Terrorism -- Prevention | Government policy -- United States
- Anecdotes
- United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes
- United States -- Military policy
- War (International law) -- Philosophy
- United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- Armed Forces -- Operations other than war
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