How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon /
Brooks, Rosa,
How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon / Rosa Brooks - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition - viii, 438 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index.
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.
9781476777863 (hardback) 9781476777870 (paperback)
2016005348
Strategic culture--United States
War (International law)--Philosophy
Armed Forces--Operations other than war
Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States
Just war doctrine
National security--United States
Militarism--United States
United States--Military policy
United States--History, Military--20th century--Anecdotes
United States--History, Military--21st century--Anecdotes
UA23 B873H 2016
How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon / Rosa Brooks - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition - viii, 438 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index.
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.
9781476777863 (hardback) 9781476777870 (paperback)
2016005348
Strategic culture--United States
War (International law)--Philosophy
Armed Forces--Operations other than war
Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States
Just war doctrine
National security--United States
Militarism--United States
United States--Military policy
United States--History, Military--20th century--Anecdotes
United States--History, Military--21st century--Anecdotes
UA23 B873H 2016