by James Carroll
World War II converted the United States into a culture addicted to war like a junkie addicted to heroin. Our first reaction to any international crisis is to send in the troops rather than sending the diplomats. The incomprehensible amount of money we spend on the military has become one of the b...
Using the Pentagon as a unifying focal point, this book explores the history of the cold war from a perspective that generally asserts that the world was darn lucky to have survived its paranoia-fueled excesses. This book flies in the face of the common perception that since we survived the cold wa...
IN progress: Carroll begins by discussing how decisions were made with regard to daylight versus night-time bombing and the ethics (or lack thereof) in bombing civilians, i.e. bombing for effect on morale etc. I had no idea of the strong influences that inter-service rivalry had on strategic and of...
This is a BIG BOOK, covering most of American military history from World War II on, and a bit of earlier history as well. The general theme here is that American foreign policy is to an unacceptable degree determined by the Pentagon and its associated institutions, the Military-industrial-political...
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