Subversion A Shocking True Story of Corruption and Redemption in the Nuclear Submarine Force and the War in Iraq (Paperback)

From the Publisher: It began in 2001. Christopher Brownfield was a naïve young midshipman. His heroes: Oliver North and John McCain. In The Education of a Patriot Brownfield tells of his life-long love affair with the U.S. Navy, how he blindly followed its "rigidity and its clarity in separating right from wrong"; how he cut his teeth on its principles of strategy, war doctrine, and weapons systems. He tells of his years serving on a nuclear submarine-the first hybrid vehicle capable of sustaining its environment and mission independent of oil and how he received his advanced nuclear supervisory certification and became a nuclear submariner, charged with an entire reactor plant aboard a nuclear warship leading secret missions in the war on terror. But after years of devotion, Brownfield's faith in the entire operation began to erode as his colleagues from the submarine force faced a new morbid reality-involuntary lottery for service in Iraq. Brownfield's intelligence in Baghdad is called upon to supervise the colonel who was once his former superior in rank, to set in motion his groundbreaking plans for energy efficiency, development, and counterinsurgency.