Memorial Day Thought: Drift

I don’t always write about the books I read, maybe not often enough…  But hopefully that lends some weight when I decide to.  I just finished Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, by Rachel Maddow, and I want you to look it up, consider reading it.  This is a smart book, on an important subject, written by a woman of formidable intelligence and wit.  The book is about our military, how it is designed to work, how it used to work, how we have drifted away from these founding principles, and how we can fix it.  It was her recent interview on The Daily Show that caught my attention, so just do me a favor and watch that.