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...
How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon / Rosa Brooks.
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
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G 2017/5792
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 438 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part I: Tremors -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: How We Got Here. Putting War into a Box ; Taming War ; An Optimistic Enterprise ; M...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2016.
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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 m...
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How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon / Rosa Brooks.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index.
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G 2017/5792
Record Identifier
74VKVgyapwDO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyapwDO
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ISBN
9781476777863 (hardcover)
1476777861 (hardcover)
DDC
355.033573
MMS ID
991024148701902626
