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Alfred a Knopf
October 2010
On Sale: September 21, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0307271692
EAN: 9780307271693
Hardcover
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The unsentimental education of an idealistic, brilliant American naval officer-a book about growing up and coming of age in Americars"s twenty-first century military, about the shattering of belief and the journey toward a visionary understanding of the new world order. Christopher J. Brownfield writes about joining the nuclear submarine force, living inside the physical embodiment of our defense policy, and absorbing the texts of atomic energy. He describes his advanced supervisory certification and what it was like to ship out on secret missions in the war on terror even as his own faith in the entire operation began to erode. We see his ambivalence drive him to leave the navy in order to attend graduate school at Yale, then instead sign up for a tour of duty in Baghdad just before the "surge." Assigned to strategic headquarters, reporting to the top general on matters of oil and electricity, he witnesses the daily escalation of the insurgency. With the arrival of General Petraeus, Brownfield finds himself center stage-advising cabinet ministers, ambassadors, and military brass with his groundbreaking ideas for energy efficiency, development, and counterinsurgency. A rare and insightful amalgam of the personal and the historical.
 Media BuzzCampbell Brown - June 30, 2010
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