The United States of War A Global History of America s Endless Conflicts from Columbus to the Islamic State David Vine

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520300874
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520300873
• Author:  David Vine

A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life.

The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus’s 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases—a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.

Table of contents:

Part I   Imperial Succession

1.   Conquest

2.   Occupied

Part II   Expanding Empire

3.   Why Are So Many Places Named Fort?

4.   Invading Your Neighbors

5.   The Permanent Indian Frontier

6.   Going Global

Part III   Imperial Transitions

7.   The Military Opens Doors

8.   Reopening the Frontier

Part IV   Global Empire

9.   Empire of Bases

10.   The Spoils of War

11.   Normalizing Occupation

12.   Islands of Imperialism

13.   The Colonial Present

14.   Building Blowback

Part V   Hyperimperialism

15.   Did The “Cold War” End?

16.   Out-of-control War

17.   War is the Mission

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