Paths of dissent : soldiers speak out against America's misguided wars
Summary
Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray. Full description
Summary: |
Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray. |
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Physical Description: |
x, 290 pages ; 22 cm |
ISBN: |
9781250870179 1250870178 |
Author Notes: |
Andrew Bacevich graduated from West Point and Princeton, served for twenty-three years in the US Army, and is now a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University. Founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank, he is the author or editor of a dozen books, among them The Limits of Power , Washington Rules , and After the Apocalypse . |