Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Audiobook (Free)

The #1 NY Instances bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.

‘One of my favorite ideas is, to never keep an unnecessary soldier,’ Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the various other Found out­ers could ever possess envisioned the present day national security condition, with its thousands of ‘privateers’; its bloated Department of Homeland Protection; its rust­ing nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and challenging to dismantle; and its strange fascination on the subject of Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.

Created with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow’s Drift argues that we’ve drifted from America’s original ideals and be a nation weirdly at serenity with perpetual war, with all the financial and individual costs that entails. To understand how we’ve attained such a dangerous place, Maddow will take us in the Vietnam Battle to today’s battle in Afghanistan, on the way discovering the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making features to private businesses, the plummeting percentage of American households whose children combat our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. She gives up a fresh, unsparing appraisal of Reagan’s radical presidency. Eventually, she displays us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our politics discourse.

Sensible yet provocative, lifeless significant yet seri­ously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a ‘loud and jangly’ politics debate about how, when, and where to apply America’s strength and power–and who reaches produce those decisions.