Full Spectrum Disorder The Military in the New American Century

by Goff, Stan

• ISBN13: 9781932360127
• ISBN10: 1932360123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-02
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

Former U.S. Special Forces veteran turned antiwar political activist Goffrings an idiosyncratic point of view and tone to his critique of U.S.oreign policy, much of which hinges on the idea that the complex system thats global capitalism is fundamentally at odds with the laws of entropy and isurrently in the process of collapse. He combines

Author Biography

Stan Goff is a retired Special Forces Master Sergeant. He is the author of four books: Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti, Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century, Sex & War, and Energy War: Exterminism for the 21st Century. Look for his website "Feral Scholar."

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Haiti: The Occupier and the Rocks	p. 8
Vietnam: Transgression	p. 15
Latin America: Aqui Hay los Indios Amigos	p. 22
Moral Imperialism & the Iron Logic of War	p. 36
Somalia: The Meanings of Bakara	p. 48
Full-Spectrum Fuckup	p. 65
Iraq: Wolves and Sheep	p. 75
Low-Casualty War	p. 116
Special Operations in a Special Period	p. 120
Hangul: Korea	p. 134
Overreach	p. 149
Black Ops	p. 160
The Left and the Armed Forces	p. 164
Strategy, Chaos, and Agility	p. 173
Homo Faber Sapiens	p. 184
Full-Spectrum Entropy: Our Period of Disorder	p. 192
Jessie	p. 215
Epilogue	p. 220
Notes	p. 229
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