House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American PowerHarperCollins, 4 июн. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 1073 "A masterful achievement...[Carroll's] prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold." —Howard Zinn, author of The People's History of the United States "One cannot understand the impact of the Pentagon on US foreign policy. . . without reading James Carroll's House of War." —Lawrence Korb, former Undersecretary of Defence under Ronald Reagan From the National Book Award–winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast—often hidden—impact on America. This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. James Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has changed this country more. To argue his case, he marshals a trove of often chilling evidence. He recounts how "the Building" and its denizens achieved what Eisenhower called "a disastrous rise of misplaced power"—from the unprecedented aerial bombing of Germany and Japan during World War II to the "shock and awe" of Iraq. He charts the colossal U.S. nuclear buildup, which far outpaced that of the USSR, and has outlived it. He reveals how consistently the Building has found new enemies just as old threats—and funding—evaporate. He demonstrates how Pentagon policy brought about U.S. indifference to an epidemic of genocide during the 1990s. And he shows how the forces that attacked the Pentagon on 9/11 were set in motion exactly sixty years earlier, on September 11, 1941, when ground was broken for the house of war. Carroll draws on rich personal experience (his father was a top Pentagon official for more than twenty years) as well as exhaustive research and dozens of extensive interviews with Washington insiders. The result is a grand yet intimate work of history, unashamedly polemical and personal but unerringly factual. With a breadth and focus that no other book could muster, it explains what America has become over the past sixty years. |
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... defined by the Vienna “Four Points.” Before America entered World War I, Woodrow Wilson proposed conditions for settlement that he characterized as “peace without victory,” a phrase he first used in a speech to the U.S. Senate on ...
... defined precisely by “pain and shock, loss and grief, privation and horror” as main objects, instead of as incidentals. This explains the “shrieking public enthusiasm”33 with which the American populace picked up the cry of ...
... defined as radically evil, then the restraints of morality did not apply. The totality of destruction that was being threatened against the radically evil Axis powers at Casablanca was not specified, and it seems unlikely that Roosevelt ...
... defined the American preference as a “spur to conscience,” as “humanitarian but nonetheless practical.” In addressing his officers not long after Casablanca, Arnold said, “War, no matter how it may be glorified, is unspeakably horrible ...
... defined itself in terms of martial honor that refused to target innocents. This starting point of U.S. strategic doctrine has particular poignancy in the context of the career path of the young AAF targeting officer whom I have cited ...
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3 The Cold War Begins | 103 |
4 SelfFulfilling Paranoia | 161 |
5 The Turning Point | 227 |
6 The Exorcism | 293 |
7 Upstream | 345 |
8 Unending War | 418 |
Acknowledgments | 515 |
Notes | 517 |
Bibliography | 609 |
Index | 624 |
Photo Credits | 658 |
Back Flap | 659 |
Back Cover | 660 |
Spine | 661 |
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