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Full Spectrum Disorder

The Military in the New American Century

By: Stan Goff

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Paperback | 2 February 2004

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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, 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 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.

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Introduction	p. 1
Haiti: The Occupier and the Rocks	p. 8
Vietnam: Transgression	p. 15
Latin America: Aqui Hay los Indios Amigos	p. 22
Moral Imperialism & the Iron Logic of War	p. 36
Somalia: The Meanings of Bakara	p. 48
Full-Spectrum Fuckup	p. 65
Iraq: Wolves and Sheep	p. 75
Low-Casualty War	p. 116
Special Operations in a Special Period	p. 120
Hangul: Korea	p. 134
Overreach	p. 149
Black Ops	p. 160
The Left and the Armed Forces	p. 164
Strategy, Chaos, and Agility	p. 173
Homo Faber Sapiens	p. 184
Full-Spectrum Entropy: Our Period of Disorder	p. 192
Jessie	p. 215
Epilogue	p. 220
Notes	p. 229
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