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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Dower, John W., author.     Subjects     Military art and science -- United States -- History.     Terrorism -- United States -- History.     United States -- Military policy -- 20th century.     United States -- Military policy -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dower, John W., author.       by title:      The violent American...         MARC Display

The violent American century : war and terror since World War II / John W. Dower. by Dower, John W., author. Chicago, Illinois : Dispatch Books : Haymarket Books : [Distributed in the U.S. by] Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c2017. Subjects Military art and science -- United States -- History.   Terrorism -- United States -- History.   United States -- Military policy -- 20th century.   United States -- Military policy -- 21st century. ISBN:  9781608467235 (paperback) : 1608467236 (paperback) Description:  xiv, 167 pages ; 20 cm Contents:  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. Requests:  0 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. The winner of numerous national prizes for his historical writings, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, Dower draws heavily on hard data and internal U.S. planning and pronouncements in this concise analysis of war and terror in our time. In doing so, he places U.S. policy and practice firmly within the broader context of global mayhem, havoc, and slaughter since World War II—always with bottom-line attentiveness to the human costs of this legacy of unceasing violence.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 355.00973 Do Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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