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More copies of this ISBN:Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Centuryby Stan Goff
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Goff's career as a soldier in Army Special Operations (Delta Force, Rangers, and Special Forces) took him from the invasions of Vietnam, Grenada, and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian and Peruvian armed forces. He taught Military Science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, conducted classified missions in El Salvador and Guatemala, and was deployed with the ill-fated Task Force Ranger (of Black Hawk Down fame) to Mogadishu. There are snapshots of those experiences in this book. But this is not a typical soldier's memoir. Goff engages in neither machismo nor maudlin soul-searching, and he is not oontent to merely tell stories. He interprets his own experience through years of post-military searching since he left the military, and draws some starkly brutal conclusions about the risks we all face in the dangerous last days of an unstable empire. Book News Annotation:Former U.S. Special Forces veteran turned antiwar political activist
Goff brings an idiosyncratic point of view and tone to his critique
of U.S. foreign policy, much of which hinges on the idea that the
complex system that is global capitalism is fundamentally at odds
with the laws of entropy and is currently in the process of collapse.
He combines his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam, Colombia, Haiti,
and elsewhere with a more recently acquired anti-racism and feminism
to his analysis of a failing U.S. imperialism that poses supreme
dangers to the very survival of the human species.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:"Goff's impassioned and often vivid critique of U.S. foreign policy derives from the perspective of a long and distinguished military career....Goff proves himself capable of a rare sort of practical and sober analysis." Publishers Weekly Synopsis:In a powerful polemic against US imperial overreach, former Special Forces Sergeant Stan Goff (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. Synopsis:A memoir of the author's career as an NCO in the Special Forces which draws lessons from his past. The book covers such subjects as: the slow collapse in Armed Forces morale due to the ongoing reductions in health and persion benefits; the ignorance of the new American Empire of the lessons of history; and the failue of intelligence due to racist stereotyping. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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