The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
by Andrew J. Bacevich
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Author: Andrew J. BacevichEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-07
ISBN: 0195311981
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: A Penetrating, Radical Analysis of US Militarism from the Heart of the Establishment
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an important and fascinating book on the rise of US militarism post-Vietnam, post-Cold War from someone who is not a left-winger, but has been at the heart of the US establishment.
Bacevich argues that post-Vietnam the US political establishment and military class have increasingly moved from a policy of war at last resort to war at first resort. Thus, between 1945 and 1991 the US only occasionally engaged in military action: Korea and Vietnam the obvious examples. Since the fall of the Cold War the US has increasingly resorted to military action across the globe. Bacevich notes that this propensity to use military force post-Soviet Union began under Bush 1, then reached excessive levels under Clinton (Kosovo, Somalia, Iraq 1998), before the triumph of Bush 11 and his foreign policy expeditions.
Thus the absolute, unmitigated disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq under Bush 11 are put into wider context rather than Bush bashing.
This book brilliantly maps the changing contours of the US political elite and military thinking from the humiliation of US power in Vietnam in 1975 and how the US got into such a mess and over-reached itself a couple of decades later.
A fascinating, revealing, concise book which is easy to read and will cause any open-minded reader to think again. Its only failure is in the author's conclusions where these fail to meet the scale of the tasks faced by those hoping to turn America around.
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