Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Ranked #44 in Current Affairs, Ranked #50 in Iraq War — see more rankings.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a... more
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a... more
Rankings by Category
Drift is ranked in the following categories:
- #58 in Liberalism
- #73 in Political Science
- #60 in Politics
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