Zusatztext "[A] thought-provoking glimpse inside America's vast post-9/11 national security apparatus." Informationen zum Autor Rosa Brooks is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a columnist for Foreign Policy , and a law professor at Georgetown University . She previously worked at the Pentagon as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; in 2011, she was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Brooks has also served as a senior advisor at the US Department of State, a consultant for Human Rights Watch, and a weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times . Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal , and dozens of other newspapers and magazines, and she is a frequent television guest, with appearances on the Charlie Rose Show , the Rachel Maddow Show , the Today show, Meet the Press , and Erin Burnett OutFront . Brooks lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband Joe, her daughters Anna and Clara, and a Brittany spaniel named Scout. Klappentext The first book to examine what happens to our institutions and to us when the military takes over our public and civilian lives. Zusammenfassung A dynamic work of reportage ( The New York Times ) written with clarity and...wit ( The New York Times Book Review ) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once! war was a temporary state of affairs. Today! America's wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms! and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war expands! so does the role of the US military. Military personnel now analyze computer code! train Afghan judges! build Ebola isolation wards! eavesdrop on electronic communications! develop soap operas! and patrol for pirates. You name it! the military does it. In this ambitious and astute ( The Washington Post ) work! Rosa Brooks provides a masterful analysis ( San Francisco Chronicle ) of this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspectivethat of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and married to an Army Green Beret. By turns a memoir! a work of journalism! a scholarly exploration of history! anthropology! and law! How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything is an illuminating ( The New York Times )! eloquent ( The Boston Globe )! courageous ( US News & World Report )! and essential ( The Dallas Morning News ) examination of the role of the military today. Above all! it is a rallying cry! for Brooks issues an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear! we undermine both America's founding values and the international rules and organizations that keep our world from sliding towards chaos. ...

"[A] thought-provoking glimpse inside America's vast post-9/11 national security apparatus."

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Rosa Brooks is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and a law professor at Georgetown University. She previously worked at the Pentagon as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; in 2011, she was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Brooks has also served as a senior advisor at the US Department of State, a consultant for Human Rights Watch, and a weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other newspapers and magazines, and she is a frequent television guest, with appearances on the Charlie Rose Show, the Rachel Maddow Show, the Today show, Meet the Press, and Erin Burnett OutFront. Brooks lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband Joe, her daughters Anna and Clara, and a Brittany spaniel named Scout.

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The first book to examine what happens to our institutions and to us when the military takes over our public and civilian lives. 

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8220;A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and...wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.

Once, war was a temporary state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war expands, so does the role of the US military. Military personnel now analyze computer code, train Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol for pirates. You name it, the military does it.

In this “ambitious and astute” (The Washington Post) work, Rosa Brooks “provides a masterful analysis” (San Francisco Chronicle) of this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective—that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and married to an Army Green Beret. By turns a memoir, a work of journalism, a scholarly exploration of history, anthropology, and law, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything is an “illuminating” (The New York Times), “eloquent” (The Boston Globe), “courageous” (US News & World Report), and “essential” (The Dallas Morning News) examination of the role of the military today. Above all, it is a rallying cry, for Brooks issues an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear, we undermine both America’s founding values and the international rules and organizations that keep our world from sliding towards chaos.

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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything CHAPTER ONE Pirates! Everything Was Strange
Telling people that I was going to work at the Pentagon felt like saying that I was going to work at the Death Star, or that I'd have an office inside the Sphinx. It took me weeks to shake off the slight feeling of unreality that hit me each time I entered the world's largest office building. Did I work here? How very strange.

Everything about the Pentagon was strange. My mother, visiting me for lunch, gaped at the Pentagon's food courts, banks, and shops. "The heart of American military power is a shopping mall?" she asked. Once you got past the shops clustered by the Metro entrance, the Pentagon's corridors were endless and echoing, lined with closed metal doors flanked by keypads and stern printed warnings: "No cell phones, cameras or other recording devices." Uniformed men and women strode about decisively, heels clicking on the shiny floors. The Pentagon had a unique scent too, some mix of cleaning fluids, wood polish, floor wax, coffee, and human stress, amplified by the canned air protecting its denizens from biological and chemical infiltration. Every time I walked in through the wide doors, the scent washed over me.

The windows in the E Ring's outward-facing offices, which house many of the most senior officials, were made of a curious green glass. I never learned the details, but I assume the thick green glass was bulletproof, or blast proof, or surveillance proof, or all those things. Regardless, from within, the green glass gave an odd chartreuse tint to the world outside the Pentagon-the endless acres of parking lots, the yacht basin, the Potomac River-and beyond, the monuments and stately buildings of official Washington. Gazing through those windows, I felt like Dorothy in the Emerald City.

There were peculiar exhibits everywhere: lurid paintings of fighter planes, elaborate dioramas illustrating the life of General Douglas MacArthur, glass-fronted displays of World War II code-breaking machines. T…