How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon - Rosa Brooks
Category: Political
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
Tags: Political, Military, Adults, Contemporary
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Release date: August 9, 2016 Duration: 13:04:40, The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased., Once, war was a temporary state of affairsa violent but brief interlude between times of peace. Today, Americas wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war expands, so does the role of the US military. Today, military personnel dont just kill people and break stuff. Instead, they analyze computer code, train Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol for pirates. You name it, the military does it., Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspectivethat of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and a human rights activist married to an Army Green Ber
