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Making the forever war : Marilyn B. Young on the culture and politics of American militarism

Title: Making the forever war : Marilyn B. Young on the culture and politics of American militarism / edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak ; afterword by Andrew Bacevich.
Author: Young, Marilyn Blatt
Publication: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

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Description

x, 224 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving end of U.S. military force. At the center of her inquiries was a seeming paradox: How can the United States stay continually at war, yet Americans pay so little attention to this militarism? Making the Forever War brings Young's articles and essays on American war together for the first time, including never before published works. Moving from the first years of the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, and more recent "forever" wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Young reveals the ways in which war became ever-present, yet more covert and abstract, particularly as aerial bombings and faceless drone strikes have attained greater strategic value. For Young, U.S. empire persisted because of, not despite, the inattention of most Americans. The collection concludes with an afterword by prominent military historian Andrew Bacevich"--

Series Statement

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond

Uniform Title

Works. Selections
Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond.

Alternative Title

Works.
Marilyn Young on the culture and politics of American militarism

Subject

Genre/Form

Military history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Making American Wars -- The Age of Global Power -- Hard Sell: The Korean War -- U.S. Opposition to War in Korea and Vietnam -- "The Same Struggle for Liberty": Korea and Vietnam -- Counting the Bodies in Vietnam -- Part II: Unlimited War, Limited Memory -- The Big Sleep -- Bombing Civilians: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- Permanent War -- US in Asia; US in Iraq: Lessons not Learned -- "I Was Thinking, as I Often Do These Days, of War": The United States in the Twenty-First Century.

Call Number

JFE 21-8154

ISBN

9781625345684
1625345682
9781625345691
1625345690

LCCN

2020053347
40030619507

OCLC

1224583082

Author

Young, Marilyn Blatt, author.

Title

Making the forever war : Marilyn B. Young on the culture and politics of American militarism / edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak ; afterword by Andrew Bacevich.

Publisher

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Bradley, Mark, 1961- editor.

Dudziak, Mary L., 1956- editor.

Bacevich, Andrew J., writer of afterword.

Other Form:

Online version: Making the forever war Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021] 9781613768228 (DLC) 2020053348

Other Standard Identifier

40030619507

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8154

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