| Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century Contributor(s): Goff, Stan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1932360123 ISBN-13: 9781932360127 Publisher: Soft Skull OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2004 Annotation: In a powerful polemic against US imperial overreach, former Special ForcesSergant Stan Geoff (Delta Force, US Rangers, Special Ops) depicts the new American Empire as hopelessly over-reliant on technology, ignorant of the lessons of history and hamstrung in their "intelligence" by racist stereotyping of countries unwilling to submit to US hegemony. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - Technology & Engineering | Military Science - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 355.033 |
| LCCN: 2003027360 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.58" W x 8" (0.63 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Goff's career as an NCO in the Special Forces (Delta Force, US Rangers, Special Ops) took him from the invasions of Panama, Grenada and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian Army (ostensibly in drug interdiction), to a semester as a West Point lecturer, to Mogadishu at the time of the operation immortalized in Black Hawk Down. Unlike the typical soldier's memoir, Goff does not in machismo or heart-searching. He draws lessons from his past, lessons about foreign policy, lessons about the police-actions designed to create stable environments for US corporations in the Western Hemisphere, lessons about how the days of the American Imperium are numbered. The books covers such subjects as: the slow collapse in Armed Forces morale due to the ongoing reductions in health and pension benefits; the continual overestimation of the ability of technology to work in hostile terrain; the moral in the story of Odoacer, the Germanic mercenary who turned against his Roman employers and sacked Rome in AD 476; new American Empire ignorance of the lessons of history; the failure of intelligence as a result of racist stereotyping of countries unwilling to submit to US hegemony. |