Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century - Couverture souple

Goff, Stan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1932360123 ISBN 13 : 9781932360127

Editeur : Catapult, 2004

Synopsis

Goff’s career as an NCO in the Special Forces (Delta Force, US Rangers, Special Ops) took him from the invasions of Panama, Grenada and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian Army (ostensibly in drug interdiction), to a semester as a West Point lecturer, to Mogadishu at the time of the operation immortalized in Black Hawk Down. Unlike the typical soldier’s memoir, Goff does not in machismo or heart-searching. He draws lessons from his past, lessons about foreign policy, lessons about the police-actions designed to create stable environments for US corporations in the Western Hemisphere, lessons about how the days of the American Imperium are numbered. The books covers such subjects as: the slow collapse in Armed Forces morale due to the ongoing reductions in health and pension benefits; the continual overestimation of the ability of technology to work in hostile terrain; the moral in the story of Odoacer, the Germanic mercenary who turned against his Roman employers and sacked Rome in AD 476; new American Empire ignorance of the lessons of history; the failure of "intelligence" as a result of racist stereotyping of countries unwilling to submit to US hegemony.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stan Goff is a retired Special Forces Master Sergeant. He is the author of four books: Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti, Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century, Sex & War, and Energy War: Exterminism for the 21st Century. Look for his website "Feral Scholar."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Catapult
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1932360123
• ISBN 13: 9781932360127
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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