{"product_id":"state-vs-defense-isbn-9780307408426","title":"State vs. Defense","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of conflict, helped fuel Islamist terror, and now threatens to bankrupt the nation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy, and the United States can no longer afford the dangers provoked. With a struggling economy biting at heels and international affairs in a precarious state of unprecedented scope, American citizens have to wonder; what’s happened? \u003ci\u003eState vs. Defense\u003c\/i\u003e characterizes figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme: America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of classics such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wise Men, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Best and the Brightest,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eState vs. Defense\u003c\/i\u003e explores how and why American leaders succumbed to the sirens of militarism, how the republic has been lost to an empire, and how the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower so famously forewarned has set us on a stark path of financial peril.\u003c\/p\u003ePreface                        \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Archetype\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The Wages of Fear            \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Seeing Reds          \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Inside Job  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Rogue Orientalists \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Treaty-port Yanks \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: War for Peace        \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Looking-Glass War           \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Madmen    \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Interregnum         \u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: 1983        \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Endgame \u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Reformation        \u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: The Weight of Peace       \u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Denouement        \u003cbr\u003eConclusion      \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNotes   \u003cbr\u003eBibliography   \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments      \u003cbr\u003eIndex\"In crisp, authoritative writing, the author sets down some scathing portraits, from MacArthur to Rumsfeld, and in a powerful conclusion, exposes the disequilibrium between the U.S. civilian versus military resources throughout the world and the continued “appeasement” by President Obama to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A work of smoldering focus and marshaled evidence.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen Glain has written and important and thought-provoking book on the growing militarizing of our foreign policy.  It is a hot issue that is getting a great deal of attention in Washington.  Steve has done a masterful job of researching ths subject and presenting a compelling case.  \u003ci\u003eState vs. Defense\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for all those developing our foreign policy and for those who are interested in this critical issue.\"--Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Retired)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The United States remains committed to a mindless pursuit of military supresmacy, regardless of cost or consequences.  Stephen Glain has got the goods on the militarists who spooked and stampeded the American pople into supporting this bizarre enterprise.  His is an urgently important tale, vividly told.\"--Andrew J. Bacevich, author of\u003ci\u003e Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Stephen Glain's \u003ci\u003eState vs. Defense\u003c\/i\u003e enters the battle as a battering ram at the Pentagon's gates.”--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003eStephen Glain has been a journalist for twenty years. He spent four years in Hong Kong writing for the local \u003ci\u003eSouth China Morning Post\u003c\/i\u003e before joining the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e in 1991 with stints in Tokyo, Seoul, and then Tel Aviv and Amman. His book \u003ci\u003eMullahs, Merchants, and Militants\u003c\/i\u003e was named the best book of 2004 by online magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Globalist\u003c\/i\u003e. His articles on U.S. foreign policy, East Asia, and the Arab world have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, The Atlantic, The Nation, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Financial Times, Gourmet, Smithsonian, Newsweek, The National\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Visit his website at www.StephenGlain.com.","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305261584613,"sku":"NP9780307408426","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307408426.jpg?v=1767737280","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/state-vs-defense-isbn-9780307408426","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}