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

by Robert D. Kaplan
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nouveau rated it 12 years ago
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...
"Check Six"
"Check Six" rated it 14 years ago
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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