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9781932360127 English 1932360123 A memoir of Goff's career as an NCO in the Special Forces which draws lessons from his past, lessons about the foreign policy, lessons about the police actions designed to create stable environments for US corporations in the Western Hemisphere, lessons about how the days of the American Imperium are numbered. The book covers such subjects as: the slow collapse in Armed Forces morale due to the ongoing reductions in health and pension benefits; the ignorance of the new American Empire of the lessons of history; and the failure of intelligence due to racist stereotyping., 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, Goff's career as an NCO in the Special Forces (Delta Force, US Rangers, Special Ops) took him from the invasions of Panama, Grenada and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian Army (ostensibly in drug interdiction), to a semester as a West Point lecturer, to Mogadishu at the time of the operation immortalized in Black Hawk Down. Unlike the typical soldier's memoir, Goff does not in machismo or heart-searching. He draws lessons from his past, lessons about foreign policy,lessonsabout the police-actions designed to create stable environments for US corporations in the Western Hemisphere, lessons about how the days of the American Imperium are numbered. The books covers such subjects as: the slow collapse in Armed Forces morale due to the ongoing reductions in health and pension benefits; the continual overestimation of the ability of technology to work in hostile terrain; the moral in the story of Odoacer, the Germanic mercenary who turned against his Roman employers and sacked Rome in AD 476; new American Empire ignorance of the lessons of history; the failure of "intelligence" as a result of racist stereotyping of countries unwilling to submit to US hegemony.
9781932360127 English 1932360123 A memoir of Goff's career as an NCO in the Special Forces which draws lessons from his past, lessons about the foreign policy, lessons about the police actions designed to create stable environments for US corporations in the Western Hemisphere, lessons about how the days of the American Imperium are numbered. The book covers such subjects as: the slow collapse in Armed Forces morale due to the ongoing reductions in health and pension benefits; the ignorance of the new American Empire of the lessons of history; and the failure of intelligence due to racist stereotyping., 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, Goff's career as an NCO in the Special Forces (Delta Force, US Rangers, Special Ops) took him from the invasions of Panama, Grenada and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian Army (ostensibly in drug interdiction), to a semester as a West Point lecturer, to Mogadishu at the time of the operation immortalized in Black Hawk Down. Unlike the typical soldier's memoir, Goff does not in machismo or heart-searching. He draws lessons from his past, lessons about foreign policy,lessonsabout the police-actions designed to create stable environments for US corporations in the Western Hemisphere, lessons about how the days of the American Imperium are numbered. The books covers such subjects as: the slow collapse in Armed Forces morale due to the ongoing reductions in health and pension benefits; the continual overestimation of the ability of technology to work in hostile terrain; the moral in the story of Odoacer, the Germanic mercenary who turned against his Roman employers and sacked Rome in AD 476; new American Empire ignorance of the lessons of history; the failure of "intelligence" as a result of racist stereotyping of countries unwilling to submit to US hegemony.