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Fortress America: the American Military and the Consequences of Peace

by Greider, William A

  • ISBN: 9781891620096
  • ISBN10: 1891620096

Fortress America: the American Military and the Consequences of Peace

by Greider, William A

  • List Price: $22.00
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs
  • Publish date: 01/01/1998
  • ISBN: 9781891620096
  • ISBN10: 1891620096
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Description: The Cold War might be over, but you'd never know it if you looked at the United States military. America still maintains the largest, most costly armed forces in the world. We have so many tanks that we've taken to dumping them in the ocean to form coral reefs. The Air Force has so many long-range bombers that it can't afford to keep them all in the air -- and still it wants to build more. The military is cutting jobs to open up more funds for planes, tanks, and submarines -- much to the joy of inefficient, and ever more profitable, American arms manufacturers. We prepare to fight a Soviet-style superpower in a major World War despite the absence of such a threat. What is going on?

Something is terribly wrong, as William Greider shows in his devastating account of a military-industrial complex trapped in a deadly spiral. Greider reveals how the military keeps spending, even though it cannot afford to use the weapons it already has. He investigates the complexities of plant closures that can devastate local communities, and the dramatic changes in how war will be fought in the next millennium. Greider looks at why important budget decisions aren't made -- decisions that could mean more with regard to protecting the long-term security of America than any new plane or missile. Fortress America is an urgent call for a national debate about our military and our government -- and their addictions.

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