Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
by Rachel Maddow

"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rust­ing nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.

Saw this on the 'seeders wanted' list had the audio and thought I would share. A mobi file of the book is also there. If you would like it in pdf the original upload by gsxrjunkie99 is where to look.