How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon Audiobook (Free)

“A dynamic work of reportage” (THE BRAND NEW York Moments) written “with clarity and…wit” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Reserve Review) about what happens when the old boundary between war and peacefulness is erased.

Once, battle was a short term state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are all over the place and forever: our foes change constantly and rarely use uniforms, and virtually anything may become a tool. As battle expands, so will the function of the US military. Military staff now analyze pc code, train about How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Stories in the Pentagon Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on digital communications, develop soap operas, and patrol for pirates. You name it, the military does it.

With this “ambitious and astute” (The Washington Post) function, Rosa Brooks “provides a masterful analysis” (SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Chronicle) of this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective-that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and married to an Army Green Beret. By converts a memoir, a work of journalism, a scholarly exploration of background, anthropology, and regulation, How Everything Became War and the Army Became Everything can be an “illuminating” (The New York Moments), “eloquent” (The Boston Globe), “courageous” (US News & World Report), and “essential” (The Dallas Morning News) study of the part of the armed service today. Most importantly, it is a rallying cry, for Brooks issues an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war vanish, we undermine both America’s founding values and the international rules and institutions that keep the world from sliding towards chaos.