How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

by Rosa Brooks

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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 mall?" In a sense, yes: the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems. Today's military personnel analyze computer code, train Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol the seas for pirates. Rosa Brooks traces...Read more
  • ISBN10 1476777861
  • ISBN13 9781476777863
  • Publish Date 9 August 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Language English