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Chargement... The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Livespar Nick Turse
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Seems like they decided to change the subtitle of this book to something a bit more attention grabbing. The sub title of the book I have is How The Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. Sounded like a very interesting topic to me so I picked up a copy. Unfortunately there wasn't anything very original between the covers, and very little I didn't already know. The one chapter I did find interesting was the chapter on recruiting. I wasn't really aware of just how low the military has sunk, not only in the losers they accept, but in the downright disgraceful, methods they use to attract those losers. ( ) Parts of this book were good. The sections on recruiting and propaganda are particularly informative and disturbing. The intro didn't work for me. Why should I (or a fictional character) care if I buy toothpaste from a company that the military also buys toothpaste from? If I shop at the same grocery store as some guy who beats his wife, am I supporting domestic violence? If the military buys a lot of food, is that part of a vast military-food conspiracy? Or is it just inevitable that people in the military need to eat something? Also, while some of the research discussed is indeed disturbing, other discussions of research bear hints of an anti-scientific attitude that's all too common in this country. I've reviewed this book for the benefit of Romanian readers here: http://tesatorul.blogspot.com/2009/08/nick-turse-complex-2008.html aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with the World Wrestling Federation and NASCAR. He shows the inventive ways the military, desperate for new recruits, now targets children and young adults, tapping into the "culture of cool" by making "friends" on MySpace. We are a long way from Eisenhower's military-industrial complex: this is its twenty-first-century progeny.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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