Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

(Metropolitan Books)

The author calls into question entrenched assumptions about America’s military policy: that the United States must maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe and be ready for intervention anywhere. These ideas, he says, are increasingly dangerous and unsustainable.The New York Times called the book a “tough-minded, bracing, and intelligent polemic against some 60 years of American militarism.” A professor of international relations and history at Boston University, Bacevich served in the Army for 23 years and retired with the rank of colonel.