American Empire Project: Breach of Trust : How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (Hardcover)

from TLCrawford

"Breach of Trust: How Americans failed their soldiers and their country" is a look at how the United States has drifted into the habit of endless warfare. Its author, Andrew Bacevich, is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, a graduate of West Point, and now a professor of international relations and hist...

from AliceKathleen

I would recommend reading anything by Andrew Bacevich. He does not write from a particularly right or left perspective but from a deeply moral point of view. This book reviews the not-too-distant-past history of US military involvements and the evolution a draft based military to an all volunteer...

from Chatterbox

The author is a former military officer (spent two decades there) who built a second career in academia, so this critique of the lack of connection between the American public and the now-professional/volunteer military, and what that means for the formation of policy, is worth reading on that co...

from Illiniguy71

Andrew Bacevich is such an important analyst of contemporary American foreign and military affairs owing to his quite unusual position. He both stands outside the reigning defense policy or national security state consensus and at the same time understands the military from the inside having spen...

from froxgirl

The author is a triple threat - writer, historian, retired Army Colonel, and his theorem will not please supporters of an all-volunteer defense. Having fought in Vietnam, he knows about wasted efforts caused by political nonsense, but he believes that the entire country must be engaged in its def...