Brooks, Rosa,

How everything became war and the military became everything / Rosa Brooks. - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tremors -- The new American way of war -- Pirates! -- Wanna go to Gitmo? -- Lawyers with guns -- The full spectrum -- The secret war -- Future warfare -- What's an army for? -- What we've made it -- How we got here -- Putting war into a box -- Taming war -- An optimistic enterprise -- Making war -- Making the state -- Un-making sovereignty -- Making the military -- An age of uncertainty -- Counting the costs -- Car bombs and radioactive sushi -- War everywhere, law nowhere? -- Institutional costs -- Managing war's paradoxes.

9781476777863 (hardcover) 9781476777870 (pbk.)

2016005348


Strategic culture--United States.
War (International law)--Philosophy.
Armed Forces--Operations other than war.
Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States.
Just war doctrine.
National security--United States.
Militarism--United States.


United States--Military policy.
United States--History, Military--20th century--Anecdotes.
United States--History, Military--21st century--Anecdotes.

UA23 / .B7837 2016

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