The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by WarOxford University Press, 1 апр. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 288 In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology--of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This mindset, the author warns, invites endless war and the ever-deepening militarization of U.S. policy. It promises not to perfect but to pervert American ideals and to accelerate the hollowing out of American democracy. As it alienates others, it will leave the United States increasingly isolated. It will end in bankruptcy, moral as well as economic, and in abject failure. With The New American Militarism, which has been updated with a new Afterword, Bacevich examines the origins and implications of this misguided enterprise. He shows how American militarism emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam War. Various groups in American society--soldiers, politicians on the make, intellectuals, strategists, Christian evangelicals, even purveyors of pop culture--came to see the revival of military power and the celebration of military values as the antidote to all the ills besetting the country as a consequence of Vietnam and the 1960s. The upshot, acutely evident in the aftermath of 9/11, has been a revival of vast ambitions and certainty, this time married to a pronounced affinity for the sword. Bacevich urges us to restore a sense of realism and a sense of proportion to U.S. policy. He proposes, in short, to bring American purposes and American methods--especially with regard to the role of the military--back into harmony with the nation's founding ideals. |
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How Americans Are Seduced by War Andrew J. Bacevich. Preface. This is a book about the new American militarism—the misleading and dangerous conceptions of war, soldiers, and military institutions that have come to pervade the American ...
How Americans Are Seduced by War Andrew J. Bacevich. Preface. This is a book about the new American militarism—the misleading and dangerous conceptions of war, soldiers, and military institutions that have come to pervade the American ...
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... American soldier's true and honorable calling. That old-fashioned understanding of soldierly purpose, now perhaps rendered obsolete, also informs much of what follows. The third point concerns politics, to which I am a latecomer ...
... American soldier's true and honorable calling. That old-fashioned understanding of soldierly purpose, now perhaps rendered obsolete, also informs much of what follows. The third point concerns politics, to which I am a latecomer ...
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... soldiers, intellectuals, and religious leaders—it uses them as vehicles to highlight the larger processes that are ... American militarism to be—then simply getting rid of that president will not make that problem go away. To pretend ...
... soldiers, intellectuals, and religious leaders—it uses them as vehicles to highlight the larger processes that are ... American militarism to be—then simply getting rid of that president will not make that problem go away. To pretend ...
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... America's matchless material abundance or even the effusions of its pop culture, the nation's arsenal of high-tech weaponry and the soldiers who employ that arsenal have come to signify who we are and what we stand for. When it comes to ...
... America's matchless material abundance or even the effusions of its pop culture, the nation's arsenal of high-tech weaponry and the soldiers who employ that arsenal have come to signify who we are and what we stand for. When it comes to ...
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... American political leaders have demonstrated their intention of tapping that mastery ... soldiers, a tendency to see military power as the truest measure of national ... America's marriage of a militaristic cast the new american militarism 2.
... American political leaders have demonstrated their intention of tapping that mastery ... soldiers, a tendency to see military power as the truest measure of national ... America's marriage of a militaristic cast the new american militarism 2.
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2 The Military Profession at Bay | 34 |
3 Left Right Left | 69 |
4 California Dreaming | 97 |
5 Onward | 122 |
6 War Club | 147 |
7 Blood for Oil | 175 |
8 Common Defense | 205 |
Notes | 227 |
Index | 262 |
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