Fortress America: The American Military And The Consequences Of Peace
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ISBN: 1891620096 / Publisher: PublicAffairs, November 1998
Explores the peacetime condition of the U.S. military as, without clear goals, it begins to slowly consume itself
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Greider, national editor at Rolling Stone magazine, reveals that the American military has not adapted to the end of the Cold War and has come to resemble a starving man whose body has begun to feed on itself. Startling examples include the dumping of old tanks in the ocean, and a continued focus on conventional infantry and tank tactics in the face of a future of biological and unconventional tactics in war. For general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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