The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State - David Vine
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American Imperialism
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The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: The United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus’ 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in 14 countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how US leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases - a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of US military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion-dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday US life.
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This post has 8 comments
June 12th, 2021
I have a liberal friend from Kenya who wonders why America doesn’t do more for the world. He seems to think that America needs to be even more engaged in global police. One thing about Trump, he certainly held true to his commitment against military intervention.
June 12th, 2021
Right up to the times he recognised Jerusalem as capital of Israel. And the Mother Of All Bombs he dropped on Syria. And declared Guido president of Venezuela And…..
June 12th, 2021
People seem to reserve the right to condemn them for insufficient action as “Global Policeman” and for acting as such in the first place.
Case: President Obama was condemned for not acting against the use of chemical weapons in Syria (extremely deadly Ghouta sarin attack in Aug 2013); and Trump was also reviled for acting.
It’s convenient also to forget that they fought fascism/Marxism during the last century, and the barbarism of ISIS in this. It’ll be interesting to discover if the book contains any criticism whatsoever of the evil imperialism of their opponents.
June 12th, 2021
And worse, seem to forget that imperium, or imperare, ‘to command’ is an elemental trait of the entire human history, and is not necessarily a Western or American idiosyncrasy; herein exampled by the Imperial History of the Middle East where evil against others and against their own people far outweighs what Americans did or did not do in our own era!
Kingdom of Ancient Egypt 3100 - 332 BC
Hittite Empire 1600 - 1178 BC
Kingdom of Israel 1050–931 BC
Assyrian Empire 1365 - 600 BC
Babylonian Empire 1894 - 550 BC
Persian Empire 550 - 336 BC
Macedonian Empire 808 BC–168 BC
Roman Empire 27 BC – 476 AD
Byzantine Empire 330–1453 AD
Sassanid Empire 750 AD
The Caliphate Empire 800 AD
Seljuk Empire 1140 AD
The Crusader Kingdoms 1187 AD
Saladin’s Empire 1279 AD
Mongol Empire 1400 Ad
Ottoman Empire 1912 AD
European Colonialism 1918 AD
Nation States 1920-onwards
June 12th, 2021
Nice list. Yeah, the U.S. kind of “sucks” as an Empire compared to all of them. You’re date for European Colonialism should be rolled back to 1500 though, probably. Or else… break it out into Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, Dutch. While the Portuguese and Dutch may be piddly empires compared to say, the Mongol’s or Ottoman’s, I would argue that at least the British deserves independent mention!
June 12th, 2021
I wouldn’t go with “English” empire at all. It was always a collective effort, inspired by an empire almost as evil, from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
June 12th, 2021
Wonder what he has to say about The Long Peace …
June 16th, 2021
Let us try.
A meter is long compared to a millimeter.
Hey, that wasnt hard.
Furthermore, their definition of “war” is debatable.
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