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Rachel maddow s drift argues that weve drifted away from americas original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. In drift, rachel maddow brings her passion, wit, cool common sense and intellectual firepower to the epic and darkly farcical story of how america has declined into an overfunded and unchecked national security stateone that inflicts more damage on americas assets, our military included, than it does on our adversaries. The unmooring of american military power paperback march 5, 20. The unmooring of american military power by maddow rachel free mobi epub ebooks download.
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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. To understand how weve arrived at such a dangerous place, maddow takes us from the vietnam war to. Maddow received a bachelors degree in public policy from stanford university and earned her doctorate in political science at oxford university. Drift by rachel maddow overdrive rakuten overdrive. The unmooring of american military power reprint by maddow, rachel isbn. The unmooring of american military power direct download. The author holds dick cheney, to whom the book is dedicated oh please let me interview you, responsible for much that has gone wrong, associating the former.
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