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War and Empire: The American Way of Life

📁 War and Empire: The American Way of Life

✍ Paul L. Atwood 📂 Library 📅 2010 🌐 English

In this provocative study, Paul Atwood attempts to show Americans that their history is one of constant wars of aggression and imperial expansion. In his long teaching career, Atwood has found that most students know virtually nothing about America's involvement in the wars of the 20th century, let

War and Empire: The American Way of Life

📁 War and Empire: The American Way of Life

✍ Paul L. Atwood 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Pluto Press 🌐 English

<DIV><DIV><DIV>In this provocative study, Paul Atwood attempts to show Americans that their history is one of constant wars of aggression and imperial expansion. In his long teaching career, Atwood has found that most students know virtually nothing about America's involvement in the wars of the 20t

War and empire: the American way of life

📁 War and empire: the American way of life

✍ Atwood, Paul L 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Pluto 🌐 English

America’s economic way of war : war and

📁 America’s economic way of war : war and the US economy from the Spanish–American War to the Persian Gulf War

✍ Hugh Rockoff 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

How did economic and financial factors determine how America waged war in the twentieth century? This important new book exposes the influence of economics and finance on the questions of whether the nation should go to war, how wars would be fought, how resources would be mobilized, and the long-te

Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Fin

📁 Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy

✍ Sarah Kreps 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Why have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lasted longer than any others in American history? The conventional wisdom suggests that the move to an all-volunteer force and unmanned technologies such as drones have reduced the apparent burden of war so much that they have allowed these conflicts to con

War's Logic: Strategic Thought and the A

📁 War's Logic: Strategic Thought and the American Way of War

✍ Antulio J. Echevarria II 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Antulio J. Echevarria II reveals how successive generations of American strategic theorists have thought about war. Analyzing the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Billy Mitchell, Bernard Brodie, Robert Osgood, Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, Henry Eccles, Joseph Wiley, Harry Summers, John Boyd, William L