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  • Hazardous Duty

  • America's Most Decorated Living Soldier Reports from the Front and Tells the Way It Is
  • By: David H. Hackworth
  • Narrated by: David H. Hackworth
  • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Colonel David H. Hackworth, the maverick military hero and war correspondent, has earned over 70 awards for heroism as well as eight purple hearts. More than any other military commentator, he has the trust and confidence of the millions of soldiers—from foreign armies as well as our own.

Hazardous Duty is a real-life, hard-hitting nonfiction thriller set in the ruins of Bosnia and the sands of Saudi Arabia, the deadly alleys of Mogadishu and the teeming streets of Port-au-Prince. Colonel Hackworth returns from these new American battlefields to report that the Pentagon is wasting hundred of billions of dollars gearing up to fight the wrong kind of wars, and offers a tough-love critique of American military leadership, interpreting the new post-Cold War conflicts.
©1997 David H. Hackworth (P)2009 Phoenix
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  • Categories: History
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An important insight into US military capabilities, politics, effectiveness.

This should be a source of information and guidance to politicians who can rise above the pork-barreling in defence spending. Efficiency improves with necessity. US military has however been compromised by decades of inefficiency, politics, and grown fat on being funded at high levels. Now China can make new equipment much more efficiently. So US must rely on its long history of motivated warriors, and technical research. The focus needs to shift to these elements. David Hackworth raises many such troubling concerns. Hopefully someone is listening who can improve things; including his readers.

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