Making the Forever War Mark Philip Bradley, Mary L. Dudziak / Mark Philip Bradley, Mary L. Dudziak
06/2021
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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.
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