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The must-read summary of Rachel Maddow's book: “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”.
This complete summary of "Drift" by Rachel Maddow, a renowned American political commentator, presents her serious yet funny analysis of how America has broken faith with the lessons it learned from the past by continuing to fight wars in other countries. She takes us from the Vietnam War, through Reagan's presidency to the Afghan War still raging today, and questions how the power of the military has managed to overpower political discourse and threaten national security.
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• Understand the role of the military and its cultural perception in America
• Expand your knowledge of American politics and social issues
To learn more, read "Drift" and discover the implications of increased military power for American national security.
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Book Presentation: Drift by Rachel Maddow
Book Abstract
If American colonists had not rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, then America as an independent nation would not exist. The Constitutional Convention vigorously debated whether America should even have a standing army as the founders understood this could drain resources and create too much of a temptation for political leaders to use it. Those worries ultimately led to the Constitution’s division of government with a deliberate bias towards peace rather than war.
However, in the past generation or two, America has drifted from that historical course. Instead of war being an occasional necessity, we’ve grown accustomed to our nation continually fighting a war or two somewhere in the world. Even worse, in recent years a larger proportion of the military operations sanctioned by the United States have been carried out by private contractors driven by the profit motive rather than the US military executing the policy of our elected leaders. In doing so, we’ve broken faith with the best advice and guidance our founders gave us.
It’s time for a course correction and for the United States to return to our constitutional roots. We need to revive the idea that America is a peaceable nation and we will only result to war when exceptional circumstances arise.
“It’s not a conspiracy, there aren’t rogue elements pushing us to subvert our national interests to instead serve theirs. It’s been more entertaining and more boneheaded than that. The good news is we don’t need a radical new vision of post–Cold War American power. We just need a “small c” conservative return to our constitutional roots, a course correction. It wasn’t inevitable. And it’s fixable.”
“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes and the opportunities of fraud growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could reserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. Those truths are well established. They are read in every page which records the progression from a less arbitrary to a more arbitrary government, or the transition from a popular government to an aristocracy or a monarchy.”
– James Madison
About the Author
Rachel Maddow is the host of the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. She previously worked at Air America Radio. She has a doctorate in politics from Oxford and a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford.
