The United States of War

A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State

De: David Vine

Narrado por: Laural Merlington

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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©2020 David Vine (P)2021 Tantor

Very informative

Very in-depth and gave a lot of background to where we are now in our country and the world.

If you have listened to Base Nation, don't bother

I have listened to Base Nation by the same author and this is essentially the same book. Preferred the other title, what little differences there are between the two.

Excellent Book!

The narrator's voice was clear and the material interesting and very relevant to the situation in the world today.