Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond - Robert D. Kaplan • BookLikes (ISBN:B009IBX3UG)

Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond

by: Robert D. Kaplan (author)

Format: kindle

ASIN: B009IBX3UG

Publish date: September 12th 2006

Publisher: Vintage

Pages no: 448

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Travel, Writing, History, Journalism, War, Military, Politics, Military History, World History

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I [am] a citizen of the United States and a believer in the essential goodness of American nationalism, a nationalism without which the security armature for any emerging global system simply could not have existed. I did not doubt that at some point, perhaps as soon as a few decades, American patri...

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5 Stars! I hated this book…at first. Why? I bought it in 2007. Kaplan’s main thesis is that we are an American Empire, in the vein of Roman, Venetian and British empires. At first I thought, oh shit, Kaplan has gone Code Pink on me. I just retired from the military and he is calling me an imperiali...

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