The Armed Society: Militarism in Modern America by Tristram Coffin
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This author plainly wears his heart on his sleeve and as the book heats up, it is clear that this a passioned attack on the then American military adventure in Vietnam, the military power and influence over the elected government. I came across this book reading others inspired by the JFK anniversary, the Snowden revelations, and the "J. Edgar" movie. This is another block in the foundation of my conviction that there isn't much neo about the Neo-cons (Major General Edwin Anderson Walker), Americas vacillates between flirtation with police state and reform, and American is an unadmitted empire built on overwhelming military superiority.
"The military decided long ago to concentrate its conquest of political power on Congress. This was a sagacious move. Congress is ... the least responsive to national need (as apart from local ones), and the most antagonistic to the Executive."
Even the themes of at least implicit support of water torture and government spying on citizens and allies arises here.
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