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Hazardous Duty is Hackworth's first-hand account of wars in the Persian Gulf, the Balkans, Somalia, Vietnam, Korea, Haiti, and Bosnia. He is supported by an army of informers, the "truth tellers," those who want "to stop the goofy things that happen in the military and in Washington."
In Hazardous Duty, the Colonel takes no prisoners. His scathing criticism is directed at the top brass, the "Perfumed Princes" of the military, the defense contractors, the Pentagon, lobbyists, the media, politicians and the entire military industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about over 40 years ago.
Hackworth's battle cry is for the disregard of the troops who risk their lives to protect our country but are used as props by politicians and generals. Every page of his book holds an amazing and embarrassing revelation. In the Gulf War, Hackworth battles the Pentagon's "Thought Control Police," who censored news coverage of the war, and reveals that Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard was just a third-rate mob, not the threat portrayed by an overzealous media.
Hackworth battles fiercely for military reform and argues that spending $300 billion a year on weapons in a post-Cold War era places an unacceptable burden on the American economy. The last chapter outlines Hackworth's ideas on reform which include cleaning up the military's top leadership and consolidating all branches of the service into one unified force. He urges the American people to get angry and demand reform. Hazardous Duty makes us understand that although we have enemies outside, the real enemy lies within.
©1996, ProMotion, inc.