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Simon Schuster
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| Release date | August 2016 |
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I'm fairly new here, but I would still like to pass on a book recommendation one of my professors gave to me.
"How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon" by Rosa Brooks
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> Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective—that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and a human rights activist married to an Army Green Beret. Her experiences lead her to an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear, we risk destroying America’s founding values and the laws and institutions we’ve built—and undermining the international rules and organizations that keep our world from sliding towards chaos. If Russia and China have recently grown bolder in their foreign adventures, it’s no accident; US precedents have paved the way for the increasingly unconstrained use of military power by states around the globe. Meanwhile, we continue to pile new tasks onto the military, making it increasingly ill-prepared for the threats America will face in the years to come.
I've read a lot of good reviews on this book and my professor has yet to let me down with book recommendations. I think it will offer a thought-provoking narrative regarding the future of the intelligence community, given the developing trends playing out today.
>this just a continuation of the military's "social experiments"
It's almost like the military is under the command of an (at least ostensibly) civilian government and not the other way around -not yet, anyway… if you live in a country the military is the only state institution that gets properly funded and is the only one that has popular support from the public then it's no mystery that the sentiment that the military should just cut the red tape and assume control of the government for themselves starts to slowly spread through the ranks -"What the hell is civilian government even for if it just hampers the only institution that most people like?" If you consider that is the norm for well-funded and publicly popular militaries around the world both currently and throughout the history of civilisation then it becomes less mysterious and more ominous.
There is a great book about this exact discussion https://www.amazon.com/How-Everything-Became-War-Military/dp/1476777861
Highly recommend reading it 👌🏼