Unlock Now State Vs. Defense: The Battle To Define America's Empire Imagined By Stephen Glain Published As Digital Copy
masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrupt the country.
For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before
the olive branch in American foreign policy, In eyeopening fashion, State vs, Defense shows how America truly operates as a superpower and explores the constant tension between the diplomats at State and the warriors at Defense,
State vs, Defense characterizes all the great figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme: America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic.
Take, for example, the Pentagon, which as of, acknowledged the concentration of,troops and,civilian employees insidemilitary facilities incountries and territories, The price of Americas militarybase network overseas, along with the expense of its national security state at home, is enormous, The bill comes in at well overtrillion, That is equal to nearlypercent of GDP and more thanpercent of the federal budget, By comparison, China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea, the five countries Pentagon planners routinely trot out as conventional threats to the national wellbeing, have a cumulative security budget of just overbillion.
Quietly, graduallyand inevitably, given the weight of its colossal budget and imperial writthe Pentagon has all but eclipsed the State Department at the center of U, S. foreign policy.
In the tradition of classics such as The Wise Men, The Best and the Brightest, and Legacy of Ashes, State vs, Defense explores how and why American leaders succumbed to the sirens of militarism, how the republic has been lost to an empire, and how “the militaryindustrial complex” that Eisenhower so famously forewarned has set us on a stark path of financial peril.
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