The Generals Have No Clothes: The Untold Story of Our Endless Wars,William M. Arkin, E.D. Cauchi

  About this book

The definitive book about America’s perpetual wars and how to end them from bestselling author, military expert, and award-winning journalist William M. Arkin.
The first rule of perpetual war is to never stop, a fact which former NBC News analyst William M. Arkin knows better than anyone, having served in the Army and having covered all of America’s wars over the past three decades. He has spent his career investigating how the military throws around the word “war” to justify everything, from physical combat to today’s globe-straddling cyber and intelligence network.
In The Generals Have No Clothes, Arkin traces how we got where we are—bombing ten countries, killing terrorists in dozens more—all without Congressional approval or public knowledge. Starting after the 9/11 attacks, the government put forth a singular idea that perpetual war was the only way to keep the American people safe. Arkin explains why President Obama failed to achieve his national security goal of ending war in Iraq and reducing our military engagements, and shows how President Trump has been frustrated in his attempts to end conflict in Afghanistan and Syria. He also reveals how COVID-19 is a watershed moment for the military, where the country’s civilian and public health needs clash with the demands of future wars against China and Russia, North Korea and Iran.
Proposing bold solutions, Arkin calls for a new era of civilian control over the military. He also calls for a Global Security Index (GSX), the security equivalent to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which would measure the national and international events in real time to determine whether perpetual war is actually making the nation safer. Arguing that the American people should be empowered by facts rather than spurred by fear, The Generals Have No Clothes outlines how we can take control of the military…before it’s too late.

-contents

chapter one: PERPETUAL WAR

chapter two :THE NATIONAL SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT

chapter three : CLOSING THE CHAPTER ON 9/11

chapter four : WHAT HAPPENED TO OBAMA

chapter five : SIPPING TEA AND SWAPPING T-SHIRTS

chapter six : BEYOND THE WAR MACHINE

chapter seven : WAR PLAYS OUT IN KOREA

chapter eight : THE POWER OF THE NETWORK

chapter nine : CONVERGENCE

chapter ten : A GLOBAL SECURITY INDEX

chapter eleven : CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY

chapter twelve : AN ALTERNATIVE

EPILOGUE

INDEX

-caractéristiques

Date de parution:13 avril 2021

Éditeur : Simon & Schuster

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages : 272 pages

ISBN-10 : 1982130997

ISBN-13 : 978-1982130992

Poids de l’article : 356 g

Dimensions : 13.97 x 2.79 x 21.27 cm