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Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

Bacevich, Andrew

Paperback

Series: American Empire Project

21st Century United States HistoryArmed ForcesUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1250055385
ISBN13: 9781250055385
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Sep 9 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules

The United States has been at war for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary citizens, as former secretary of defense Robert Gates has acknowledged, armed conflict has become an abstraction and military service something for other people to do. In Breach of Trust, bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the damage this disconnect has wrought.

National defense, he argues, should become the business of we the people. Should Americans refuse to shoulder this responsibility, the prospect of endless war, waged by a foreign legion of professionals and contractor-mercenaries, beckons. So too does bankruptcy--moral as well as fiscal.

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