03436cam a2200361 4500 536467834 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307970411 0307970418 e31dde29-ccf3-4278-9861-44bd3577eafa OverDrive (Reserve ID) 615472 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Maddow, Rachel. Drift [Libby] : The Unmooring of American Military Power. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 207MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 207MB. History. Politics. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.</b><br /> <br /> "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rust­ing nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.<br /> <br /> Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's <i>Drift</i> argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. She offers up a fresh, unsparing appraisal of Reagan's radical presidency. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our political discourse.<br /> <br /> Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri­ously funny, <i>Drift</i> will reinvigorate a "loud and jangly" political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power—and who gets to make those decisions. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/615472-Drift.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/615472-Drift.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E31DDE29-CCF3-4278-9861-44BD3577EAFA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/615472-Drift.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/615472-Drift.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E31DDE29-CCF3-4278-9861-44BD3577EAFA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) TXLVP