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Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (American Empire Project) Hardcover – September 10, 2013

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  • Series: American Empire Project
  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Books; F First Edition, 1st Printing edition (September 10, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805082964
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805082968
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 8.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsA disturbing but vitally necessary read. Take note, Mr President, and Congress too
By Timothy J. Bazzett on September 10, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Andrew Bacevich's latest offering, BREACH OF TRUST, is going to make a lot of people squirm - if people read it, that is. Because in this book he tells us flat out that an all-volunteer army in a democratic society simply does not work, and that the present system is "broken." It is bankrupting our country, and not just financially, but morally. He tells us that Iraq and Afghanistan, two of the longest and most expensive wars in U.S. history, have evoked little more than "an attitude of cordial indifference" on the part of a shallow and selfish populace more concerned with the latest doings of the Kardashians, professional superstar athletes or other vapid and overpaid millionaire celebrities, reflecting "a culture that is moored to nothing more than irreverent whimsy and jeering ridicule."

Bacevich cites General Stanley McChrystal, former commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, who spoke about having "skin in the game," meaning that when a country goes to war every town and city should be at risk. McChrystal went on to say the unthinkable: "I think we'd be better if we actually went to a draft these days ... for the nation it would be a better course."

Horrors! That dreaded "D" word finally uttered aloud. Well, I'd say it's about damn time. And Bacevich agrees, noting that in his many speaking engagements over the past ten years "I can count on one hand the number of occasions when someone did NOT pose a question about the draft, invariably offered as a suggestion for how to curb Washington's appetite for intervention abroad and establish some semblance of political accountability.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBreach of Trust
By Gerald M. Sutliff on September 11, 2013
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I couldn't agree more with author Bacevich. Personally I've been out of sync with what passes for military policy since I returned from being a grunt level service man (USArmy) back in really early days of Vietnam conflict. In a sense this book reassures me that there are thinking, intelligent officers serving but on the other hand. where were they back in 1962 - 63 before it was too late? I'm looking forward to reading Bacevich's suggestions on how to prevent military "interventions" in the future. Bacevich's prose in clear and his arguments well written. I recommend Breach of Trust to anyone who harbors even the slightest doubt about our popularization of military culture from the Friday Night High School football game to Hollywood mega "entertainments". The worst action by Dick Nixon was ending the draft, I thought so then and do now.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Solid Look at The Military
By Michael J. Gosling on September 12, 2013
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Andrew Bacevich has done it once again. "Breach of Trust" offers a well researched account of the history of the Army, as well as how the country's citizens have abdicated their responsibility to truly stand behind the armed forces by making sacrifices in their own lives to "Support the Troops."

A criticism of Bacevich I have read in the past is that all his books are essentially the same: The misuse of the country's military to solve matters of international diplomacy. However, a close look at his work shows how he systematically analyzes each facet of how the government, and in turn the country's citizens, look to using the armed forces as an end in itself to maintain America's role as the one indispensable nation on the planet.

A must read for those interested in what a lack of genuine concern, and in turn, the responsibilities of citizenship, for the men and women in uniform will affect the country's future.

Mike Gosling
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5.0 out of 5 starsan important analysis
By Stanley Crowe TOP 1000 REVIEWER on September 17, 2013
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Readers of Ben Fountain's novel "Billy Lynne's Long Half-time Walk" might have thought that behind that sad and satiric narrative lay an argument about the way in which the US Army and the civil society it serves have become disengaged from one another to an extent that our civic recognitions of military sacrifice have become increasingly spectacular and increasingly empty. "Breach of Trust" makes that argument explicitly and does so concisely and devastatingly. Bacevich reminds his readers of the very different relationship between civil society and the military in conflicts like the Civil War and World War 2, and while he is ready to point to the political failures that led to the change, he insists that the fault is not only with the politicians but with ourselves. He suggestively ties our attitudes to military sacrifice to our attitudes to other crises, like the recession of 2009, and indicts us all of being unwilling to make the everyday sacrifices that might compromise our material comfort while that comfort becomes available to fewer and fewer Americans and while we continue to drive ourselves deeper in debt with military spending that enriches large corporations but leaves the comfortably-off disconnected from a host of social problems and from soldiers who serve "us" with little substantive benefit and support. Bacevich is a severe moralist but a necessary one. The Bush and Obama administrations aren't spared, and even less are the pundits and so-called experts who pronounce fatuously on military matters. The book as a whole implies a criticism of our culture at large that demands our attention.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTells it like it is

Good book ... This book identifies various factors and various factions that have contributed to the current disconnect between our military and the rest of our country. Read more

Published 11 days ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsIncisive, informative

An excellent book, written with incisive skill and offered to a sleeping nation. Andrew Bacevich will inform your thinking and sharpen your judgment about important things. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Hound 99
3.0 out of 5 starsPrepare to be Angry

Not a spellbinder. I was put off by his obvious bias. I would have enjoyed a more objective view, which would allow me to be as horrified from dawning realization as from his... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Jean Greenwood
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book

Andrew J Bacevich is, in my view, a national treasure. It is not hard to see why he did not become a general: he thinks, and the conclusions he draw, and states, are likely to be... Read more

Published 3 months ago by olemikey
4.0 out of 5 starsIt is Our Duty to Read Bacevich

I am about three years late as an early reviewer of Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, by Andrew J. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Stan Prager
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent recap on how the changes which have been made ...

Excellent recap on how the changes which have been made to our military, particularly in recruitment, have cost our nation the instruction of discipline for many who never received... Read more

Published 4 months ago by James H. Rogers
3.0 out of 5 starsA hard (but important) 'pill' to 'swallow'!

This book contains a lot of information, and should be required reading in high schools, colleges, universities and, most importantly... by each President, Senator and Congressman. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Brookfield88
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

great book that needs to be read

Published 5 months ago by D. J. Singer
4.0 out of 5 starsI liked the ideas, not the presentation

I like Bacevich writings, and this is a fine one. It got important message to convey, namely, that the abolition of conscription during the Vietnam War had unexpected wicked... Read more

Published 8 months ago by advokat
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Solid read. In the style of Smedley Butler

Published 8 months ago by bob lewis

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