03769nam 2200565 450 991079130350332120230617014805.00-19-974116-60-19-518394-01-280-42814-71-4237-4668-60-19-972714-7(CKB)2550000001204451(StDuBDS)AH24087448(MiAaPQ)EBC273069(Au-PeEL)EBL273069(CaPaEBR)ebr11303275(CaONFJC)MIL42814(OCoLC)870243604(EXLCZ)99255000000120445120161201h20052005 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe new American militarism how Americans are seduced by war /Andrew J. BacevichOxford, [England] ;New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2005.©20051 online resource (xvi, 278 p.)Includes index.0-19-517338-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Examines how an America once possessed with a disdain for the use of force has come to embrace the military as the only means of securing a stable world order. This work shows how American militarism emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam War. It warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike.In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology-of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This mindset, the author warns, invites endless war and the ever-deepening militarization of U.S. policy. It promises not to perfect but to pervert American ideals and to accelerate thehollowing out of American democracy. As it alienates others, it will leave the United States increasingly isolated. It will end in bankruptcy, moral as well as economic, and in abject failure. With The New American Militarism, which has been updated with a new Afterword, Bacevich examines the origins and implications of this misguided enterprise. He shows how American militarism emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam War. Various groups in American society-soldiers, politicians on the make, intellectuals, strategists, Christian evangelicals, even purveyors of pop culture-came to see the revival of military power and the celebration of military values as theantidote to all the ills besetting the country as a consequence of Vietnam and the 1960s. The upshot, acutely evident in the aftermath of 9/11, has been a revival of vast ambitions and certainty, this time married to a pronounced affinity for the sword. Bacevich urges us to restore a sense of realism and a senseof proportion to U.S. policy. He proposes, in short, to bring American purposes and American methods-especially with regard to the role of the military-back into harmony with the nation's founding ideals.MilitarismUnited StatesHistory21st centuryConservatismUnited StatesHistory21st centuryUnited StatesMilitary policyUnited StatesForeign relations2001-2009United StatesPolitics and government2001-2009MilitarismHistoryConservatismHistory55.02130973Bacevich Andrew J.472053MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791303503321The new American militarism3757822UNINA