Ebook: Another Century of War?

Preface; Introduction; 1 The War Comes Home; 2 The Middle East: The Legacies of Failure; 3 The Trap: Afghanistan and the United States; 4 The Making of American Foreign Policy: Successes, and Failures; 5 Strategic Confusions; 6 Another Century of War?; Sources and Notes; Index.;Another Century of War? is a candid and critical look at America's "new wars" by a brilliant and provocative analyst of its old ones. Gabriel Kolko's masterly studies of conflict have redefined our views of modern warfare and its effects; in this urgent and timely treatise, he turns his attention to our current crisis and the dark future it portends. Another Century of War? insists that the roots of terrorism lie in America's own cynical policies in the Middle East and Afghanistan, a half-century of real politik justified by crusades for oil and against communism. The latter threat has disappe.