Category: Military & Pentagon Power

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on War Complex—War as a Racket

00 Remixed Review Lists, Asymmetric, Cyber, Hacking, Odd War, Atrocities & Genocide, Budget Process & Politics, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Complexity & Catastrophe, Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Culture, Research, Economics, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Environment (Problems), Force Structure (Military), Impeachment & Treason, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Iraq, Justice (Failure, Reform), Military & Pentagon Power, Misinformation & Propaganda, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Security (Including Immigration), True Cost & Toxicity, War & Face of Battle, Water, Energy, Oil, Scarcity, Worth A Look

War Complex—War as a Racket

Review:DVD: Behind Every Terrorist There Is a Bush

Review DVD: The Fog of War – Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Review DVD: Lord of War (Widescreen) (2005)

Review DVD: The Good Soldier

Review (DVD): Unthinkable

Review DVD: Why We Fight (2006)

Review: Betraying Our Troops–The Destructive Results of Privatizing War

Review: Blood Money–Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq

Review: Hope of the Wicked

Review: House of War (Hardcover)

Review: The Price of Liberty–Paying for America’s Wars

Review: The Shock Doctrine–The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Review: The Swiss, The Gold And The Dead–How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine

Review: The True Cost of Conflict/Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society

Review: War is a Racket–The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Elite Rule

00 Remixed Review Lists, Banks, Fed, Money, & Concentrated Wealth, Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Culture, Research, Economics, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Environment (Problems), Impeachment & Treason, Justice (Failure, Reform), Military & Pentagon Power, Misinformation & Propaganda, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Priorities, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized), Worth A Look

Elite Rule

Review DVD: The AMERICAN Ruling Class

Review: All the Money in the World–How the Forbes 400 Make–and Spend–Their Fortunes

Review: How The World Really Works

Review: Rule by Secrecy–The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids

Review: Superclass–The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

Review: The New Rulers of the World

Review: The Rise of the Fourth Reich–The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America

Review: The Secret Founding of America–The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, & the Battle for The New World

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Institutionalized Ineptitude

00 Remixed Review Lists, Complexity & Catastrophe, Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Culture, Research, Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Environment (Problems), Military & Pentagon Power, Politics, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Threats (Emerging & Perennial), Worth A Look

Institutionalized Ineptitude

Review DVD: Idiocracy

Review DVD: The Fog of War – Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Review: At War with Ourselves–Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World

Review: Blind Into Baghdad–America’s War in Iraq

Review: Breaking the Real Axis of Evil–How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025

Review: Daydream Believers–How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Review: Devil’s Game–How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (American Empire Project)

Review: Dunces of Doomsday–10 Blunders That Gave Rise to Radical Islam, Terrorist Regimes, And the Threat of an American Hiroshima

Review: Fiasco–The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)

Review: Glenn Beck’s Common Sense–The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

Review: National Suicide: How Washington Is Destroying the American Dream from A to Z

Review: Our Undemocratic Constitution–Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It)

Review: Strategery–How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media (Hardcover)

Review: The Powers of War and Peace–The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (Hardcover)

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Dereliction of Duty (Defense)

00 Remixed Review Lists, Military & Pentagon Power, Worth A Look

Dereliction of Duty (Defense)

Budget Malfeasance

Review DVD: Why We Fight (2006)

Review: Averting the Defense Train Wreck in the New Millennium (CSIS Report)

Review: Blank Check–The Pentagon’s Black Budget

Review: Making America’s Budget Policy–From the 1980s to the 1990s (Paperback)

Review: National Defense

Review: The Fifty Year Wound–The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory

Review: The Three Trillion Dollar War–The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Review: Transformation Under Fire–Revolutionizing How America Fights

Review: Wastrels of Defense–How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security

Consequences

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

Review: Imperial Grunts–The American Military on the Ground (Hardcover)

Review: Tiger Force–A True Story of Men and War (Hardcover)

Review: Unintended Consequences–The United States at War

Central Asia

Review: Descent into Chaos–The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

Review: Seeds of Terror–How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda

Contractors & Contractor-Related Corruption

Review: Licensed to Kill–Hired Guns in the War on Terror (Hardcover)

Review: The Devil’s Garden

Culture

Review: House of War (Hardcover)

Homeland Insecurity

Review: American Jihad–The Terrorists Living Among Us

Review: Open Target–Where America Is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardcover)

Review: Osama’s Revenge–THE NEXT 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven’t Told You

Hubris & Incompetence

Review (Guest): Bathtub Admirals (Hardcover)

Review: Against All Enemies–Inside America’s War on Terror

Review: An End to Evil–How to Win the War on Terror

Review: Blind Into Baghdad–America’s War in Iraq

Review: Endgame–The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror

Review: Fiasco–The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)

Review: How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War

Review: Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy

Review: Losing the Golden Hour–An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction

Review: Rumsfeld–His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy

Review: Squandered Victory–The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Hardcover)

Review: The End of Iraq–How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Hardcover)

Review: The Mission–Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military

Review: The One Percent Doctrine–Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (Hardcover)

Review: The Rules of the Game–Jutland and British Naval Command

Review: Treachery–How America’s Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies (Hardcover)

Review: War and Decision–Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

Review: War in a Time of Peace–Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

Review: What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

Middle East

Review: Marching Toward Hell–America and Islam After Iraq

Review: Target Iran–The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change

Review: The Power of Israel in the United States

Review: They Dare to Speak Out–People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby