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The long war : a new history of U.S. national security policy since World War II /

Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's ""Global War on Terror...

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Other Authors: Bacevich, Andrew J.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ℗♭2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Liberation or dominance?: the ideology of U.S. national security policy / Arnold A. Offner
  • Variations on the American way of war / James Kurth
  • The politics of conventional warfare in an unconventional age / George H. Quester
  • Shield and sword: U.S. strategic forces and doctrine since 1945 / Tami Davis Biddle
  • Elusive bargain: the pattern of U.S. civil-military relations since World War II / Andrew J. Bacevich
  • The evolution of the national security state: ubiquitous and endless / Anna Kasten Nelson
  • Intelligence for empire / John Prados
  • The military-industrial complex: lobby and trope / Alex Roland
  • Paying for global power: costs and benefits of postwar U.S. military spending / Benjamin O. Fordham
  • The changing moral contract for military service / James Burk
  • American insecurity: dissent from the "long war" / Charles Chatfield
  • The "good" war: national security and American culture / William L. O'Neill.