{"id":5736,"date":"2016-10-08T17:08:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2016-10-08T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:08:29","slug":"the-changing-face-of-military-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/08\/the-changing-face-of-military-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Face of Military Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Dunlap on <em><strong>Lawfare<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/american-military-culture-and-civil-military-relations-today\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a>\u00a0Rosa Brooks&#8217;\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Everything-Became-War-Military\/dp\/1476777861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How Everything Became War and the Military\u00a0Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though subtitled \u201cTales from the Pentagon,\u201d this book is not some sort of mindless &#8220;tell-all&#8221;\u00a0by a former government official. Instead it\u2019s a thoughtful analysis of national security in a capacious sense, as seen by\u00a0a former journalist turned Georgetown law professor turned Pentagon official turned defense thinker<em>.<\/em>\u00a0<em>How Everything Became War<\/em>is one of those rare books in which there is no part not worth reading; moreover, it addresses an astonishing number of issues for a volume of this length.\u00a0You\u2019ll learn about such diverse security issues as piracy, military detention, our strategic deafness about Africa, stability operations, drones, covert operations, cyber, nonlethal weapons, the militarization of foreign policy, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>The wide range of topics in the <em>How Everything Became War <\/em>is perhaps less for its own sake than to point to the interconnections between them, and also to show the structure of national security decision-making on a day-to-day basis and the many offices of government and officials\u2014far beyond simply the Department of Defense and a handful of intelligence agencies\u2014involved in making them. These are weighty topics, but the book proceeds in a deceptively easy narrative tone, revealing Rosa\u2019s skill\u2019s as a journalist. It opens, for example, with an account of sitting in an \u201canonymous Pentagon conference room \u2026 listening as briefers from the military\u2019s Special Operations command went over plans for an impending strike against a terrorist operative.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put it on my Christmas list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Dunlap on Lawfare reviews\u00a0Rosa Brooks&#8217;\u00a0How Everything Became War and the Military\u00a0Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon: Though subtitled \u201cTales from the Pentagon,\u201d this book is not some sort of mindless &#8220;tell-all&#8221;\u00a0by a former government official. Instead it\u2019s a thoughtful analysis of national security in a capacious sense, as seen \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/08\/the-changing-face-of-military-law\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}