Rachel Maddow's book looks at military's scary drift

  Rachel Maddow is a great liberal host on MSNBC and the issues she talks about are very important. She eloquently makes the progressive cause look as the much better alternative and what surprises me is that she has written a book about the military industrial complex of America. The book "Drift" is a great look at how the United States has transformed a military of defense to one of international interventionist and arms sales across the globe. She talks about the military public relations work in getting Americans to accept our role of international "peacekeepers' and police man around the world. Rachel looks at a a prticular time in one of her chapters where the American military at both retreated and invaded a small Caribbean island to save face and prestige after many marines were killed by one lone suicide bomber in Lebanon in 1983 She also focuses much on the Reagan era where military spending jumped exponentially from 150 billion a year to three hundred billion in the eight years that the Reagan administration worked so hard to bankrupt the Soviet empire while at the same time helping to bankrupt this nation.
  Perhaps the most interesting thing that Maddow shows is the growth of hiring private contractors and paying them absurd amount of money to do many of the basic military function and what a lucrative waste of tax payer money it is for the few companies that get to do the dirty work fixing and repairing much of what our military wrecks overseas. Then she ends the book with an scary explanation of the cost of maintenance and unpreparedness to fix much of our aging Nuclear arsenal. This book has it all if you are interested in reading about the rise of the modern military machine and why so many paid politicians fight to keep the money flowing to segment of society that takes such a huge chunk of out budget and resources away from more important and necessary things at home. .