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The violent American century : war and terror since World War II / John W. Dower.

Summary:

The Violent “American Century” addresses the U.S.-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945-beginning with brutal localized hostilities, proxy wars, and the nuclear terror of the Cold War, and ending with the asymmetrical conflicts of the present day. The military playbook now meshes brute force with a focus on non-state terrorism, counterinsurgency, clandestine operations, a vast web of overseas American military bases, and-most touted of all-a revolutionary new era of computerized “precision” warfare. By contrast to World War II, postwar death and destruction has been comparatively small. By any other measure, it has been appalling-and shows no sign of abating.

Record details

ISBN: 9781608467235
ISBN: 1608467236
Physical Description: xiv, 167 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-158) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Measuring violence -- Legacies of World War II -- Cold War nuclear terror -- Cold War wars -- Proxy war and surrogate terror -- New and old world orders: the 1990s -- September 11 and "a new kind of war" -- Arcs of instability -- The American century at seventy-five.