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State Of War
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Author : James Risen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-01-05
State Of War written by James Risen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-05 with Political Science categories.
With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies a secret history -- a series of hidden events that makes a mockery of current debate. This hidden history involves domestic spying, abuses of power, and outrageous operations. It includes a CIA that became caught in a political cross fire that it could not withstand, and what it did to respond. It includes a Defense Department that made its own foreign policy, even against the wishes of the commander in chief. It features a president who created a sphere of deniability in which his top aides were briefed on matters of the utmost sensitivity -- but the president was carefully kept in ignorance. State of War reveals this hidden history for the first time, including scandals that will redefine the Bush presidency. James Risen has covered national security for The New York Times for years. Based on extraordinary sources from top to bottom in Washington and around the world, drawn from dozens of interviews with key figures in the national security community, this book exposes an explosive chain of events: Contrary to law, and with little oversight, the National Security Administration has been engaged in a massive domestic spying program. On such sensitive issues as the use of torture, the administration created a zone of deniability: the president's top advisors were briefed, but the president himself was not. The United States actually gave nuclear-bomb designs to Iran. The CIA had overwhelming evidence that Iraq had no nuclear weapons programs during the run-up to the Iraq war. They kept that information to themselves and didn't tell the president. While the United States has refused to lift a finger, Afghanistan has become a narco-state, supplying 87 percent of the heroin sold on the global market. These are just a few of the stories told in State of War. Beyond these shocking specifics, Risen describes troubling patterns: Truth-seekers within the CIA were fired or ignored. Long-standing rules were trampled. Assassination squads were trained; war crimes were proposed. Yet for all the aggressiveness of America's spies, a blind eye was turned toward crucial links between al Qaeda and Saudi Arabia, among other sensitive topics. Not since the revelations of CIA and FBI abuses in the 1970s have so many scandals in the intelligence community come to light. More broadly, Risen's secret history shows how power really works in George W. Bush's presidency.
The State War And The State Of War
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Author : Kalevi Jaakko Holsti
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996
The State War And The State Of War written by Kalevi Jaakko Holsti and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
War has traditionally been studied as a problem deriving from the relations between states. Strategic doctrines, arms control agreements, and the foundation of international organizations such as the United Nations are designed to prevent wars between states. Since 1945, however, the incidence of interstate war has actually been declining rapidly, while the incidence of internal wars has been increasing. The author argues that in order to understand this significant change in historical patterns, we should jettison many of the analytical devices derived from international relations studies and shift attention to the problems of 'weak' states, those states unable to sustain domestic legitimacy and peace. This book surveys some of the foundations of state legitimacy and demonstrates why many weak states will be the locales of war in the future. Finally, the author asks what the United Nations can do about the problems of weak and failed states.
The State Of War
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Author : Stanley Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: New York : Praeger
Release Date : 1965
The State Of War written by Stanley Hoffmann and has been published by New York : Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with International relations categories.
State Of War
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Author : Thomas Conlan
language : en
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Release Date : 2003
State Of War written by Thomas Conlan and has been published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan
Land The State And War
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Author : Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Land The State And War written by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with Law categories.
The first detailed study of institutional economics and public choice traditions in Afghanistan.
State Of War
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Author : Ninotchka Rosca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-12
State Of War written by Ninotchka Rosca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with Fiction categories.
An endless festival amidst an endless war is the central image of this novel of the Philippines of the time of Marcos. Three young people seek relief from the suffocating repression and brutality of the Dictatorship by joining an ancient festival in the island of K----. They find instead that the war has followed them and that the festival is but a metaphor for an entire society and culture in conflict. The three find distinct destinies of death, liberation, affirmation and ultimately, salvation. This book is now considered a classic of Philippine literature.
War State And Society
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Author : Jacklyn Cock
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1984-04-12
War State And Society written by Jacklyn Cock and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-12 with Social Science categories.
The United States Of War
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Author : David Vine
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2021-09-07
The United States Of War written by David Vine and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with History categories.
2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. 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's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. 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 U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.
Capital The State And War
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Author : Alexander Anievas
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2014-04-11
Capital The State And War written by Alexander Anievas and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-11 with Business & Economics categories.
Tracing how the emergence of global capitalism gave rise to the Thirty Years' Crisis
State Of War
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Author : Paul A. C. Koistinen
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2012-09-16
State Of War written by Paul A. C. Koistinen and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-16 with History categories.
In his farewell speech, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned us of the dangers of a military-industrial complex (MIC). In Paul Koistinen's sobering new book, that warning appears to have been both prophetic and largely ignored. As the final volume in his magisterial study of the political economy of American warfare, State of War describes the bipolar world that developed from the rivalry between the U.S. and USSR, showing how seventy years of defense spending have bred a monster that has sunk its claws into the very fabric of American life. Koistinen underscores how during the second half of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, the United States for the first time in its history began to maintain large military structures during peacetime. Many factors led to that result: the American economy stood practically alone in a war-ravaged world; the federal government, especially executive authority, was at the pinnacle of its powers; the military accumulated unprecedented influence over national security; and weaponry became much more sophisticated following World War II. Koistinen describes how the rise of the MIC was preceded by a gradual process of institutional adaptation and then supported and reinforced by the willing participation of Big Science and its industrial partners, the broader academic world, and a proliferation of think tanks. He also evaluates the effects of ongoing defense budgets within the context of the nation's economy since the 1950s. Over time, the MIC effectively blocked efforts to reduce expenditures, control the arms race, improve relations with adversaries, or adopt more enlightened policies toward the developing world-all the while manipulating the public on behalf of national security to sustain the warfare state. Now twenty years after the Soviet Union's demise, defense budgets are higher than at any time during the Cold War. As Koistinen observes, more than six decades of militaristic mobilization for stabilizing a turbulent world have firmly entrenched the state of war as a state of mind for our nation. Collectively, his five-volume opus provides an unparalleled analysis of the economics of America's wars from the colonial period to the present, illuminating its impact upon the nation's military campaigns, foreign policy, and domestic life.