{"product_id":"9780307408426","title":"State vs. Defense","description":"Author: Glain, Stephen\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780307408426\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE US\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Aug 2012\u003cbr\u003ePages: 496 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterful account of how 60 years of American militarism created the cold war, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrupt the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of conflict, helped fuel Islamist terror, and now threatens to bankrupt the nation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy, and the United States can no longer afford the dangers provoked. With a struggling economy biting at heels and international affairs in a precarious state of unprecedented scope, American citizens have to wonder; what's happened? \u003ci\u003eState vs. Defense\u003c\/i\u003e characterizes figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme- America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of classics such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wise Men, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Best and the Brightest,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eState vs. Defense\u003c\/i\u003e explores how and why American leaders succumbed to the sirens of militarism, how the republic has been lost to an empire, and how the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower so famously forewarned has set us on a stark path of financial peril.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901034152094,"sku":"ING-9780307408426","price":37.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780307408426.jpg?v=1782351943","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780307408426","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}