Close the Pentagon: Rethinking National Security for a Positive-Sum World

The Pentagon, famed as the world's largest office building, recently underwent a renovation process that took seventeen years and $4.5 billion -- ten times as long and four times the cost of constructing it in the first place. That makes it a potent symbol of a US foreign policy infrastructure built for another era, dominated by a massive, bureaucratic, hopelessly inefficient military machine. Close the Pentagon argues that traditional battlefield warfare is going extinct while the national security threats of the next fifty years -including climate change, pandemics, global financial meltdowns- don't need a military response. It is time to radically overhaul our foreign policy institutions -and budget-- to focus on diplomacy and global economic engagement.

• | Author: Charles Kenny
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: January 23, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 162 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1710611758
• | ISBN-13: 9781710611755