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

ISBN-13: 9781250055385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str.

Andrew J. Bacevich

Opis

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.

O autorze

Andrew J. Bacevich, geboren 1947, ist Professor für Geschichte und internationale Beziehungen an der Boston University und Mitglied des 'Council on Foreign Relations'. Er hat mehrere Bücher zu aktuellen politischen Themen veröffentlicht und schreibt für Zeitungen und Magazine wie 'The New York Times'.