How everything became war and the military became everything /
Rosa Brooks.
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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.