(Išleidimo metai: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Independent Institute, ISBN-13: 9781598134339)
What if America could be stronger, safer, and spend half as much on national defense?The military-industrial complex is broken. Corruption, waste, and catastrophic hubris are out of control, and the result has been...Daugiau...
In War and the Rogue Presidency, Ivan Eland shows that almost immediately after the nation’s founding, starting with the first presidency of George Washington, the executive’s role in defense and foreign policy began expanding...Daugiau...
Presidents who claimed to limit government often actually did the opposite. History often looks unfavorably on presidents who may have actually contributed smart and important policies. Were Harding and Coolidge really as ineffective as their re...Daugiau...
This book examines the implications of counterinsurgency warfare for U.S. defense policy and makes the compelling argument that the United States default position on counterinsurgency wars should be to avoid them....Daugiau...
Eland, director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute, surveys the history of the struggle to control oil-supplies in the Middle East over the last hundred years, and debunks several myths about oil. The material is divided in...Daugiau...
Debunking numerous myths that have emerged about the worlds resources of oil, this book argues that the use of U.S. military power to secure oil is not only needless and costlyin both lives and moneyb...Daugiau...
Eland, a senior fellow at the Institute, argues that occupied Iraq is now so thoroughly polarized that it should be divided into three or more parts with the U.S. withdrawing its military in order to leave behind peaceful and stable societies willing...Daugiau...
Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, takes a novel approach in evaluating each US President by grading their performance on their dedication to preserving the Constitution and promoting peac...Daugiau...
Delving into the concept of the United States as an empire, this investigation examines U.S. interventions around the worldfrom the Spanish-American War to the invasion of Iraqdemonstrating how they not only contradict the principles of bot...Daugiau...
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Eland asserts that the US has maintained an empire for more than a century, despite perceptions by both conservatives and liberals and officials claims to the contrary. He maintains that the empire is eroding the countrys reputation overseas and th...Daugiau...
This book examines the implications of counterinsurgency wars for U.S. defense policy and makes the compelling argument that the United States default position on counterinsurgency wars should be to avoid them. In this compelling stud...Daugiau...
