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Humane, how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war, Samuel Moyn

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Humane, how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war, Samuel Moyn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-380) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Humane

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Samuel Moyn

Sub title

how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war

Summary

In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who's president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere. Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical--to ban torture and limit civilian casualties--have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? This is the story of how America went off to fight and never came back, and how armed combat was transformed from an imperfect tool for resolving disputes into an integral component of the modern condition. As American wars have become more humane, they have also become endless. This provocative book argues that this development might not represent progress at all

Table Of Contents

The warning -- Blessed are the peacemakers -- Laws of inhumanity -- Air war and America's brutal peace -- The Vietnamese pivot -- "Cruelty is the worst thing we do" -- The road to humanity after September -- The arc of the moral universe -- Epilogue

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