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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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Non-Fiction
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.
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