War the afterparty
Subtitle: a global walkabout through a half-century of U.S. military interventions
By: Brian Gruber
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9781530435401
Subjects: Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations
Description: WAR: The Afterparty is a round-the-world tour through countries that have received American military forces in the pursuit of freedom, democracy, justice and the free flow of commerce. In Southeast Asia, the Greater Middle East, the Balkans and Central America author Brian Gruber records oral histories from political and religious leaders, writers, teachers, mothers and combatants who witnessed history from the other end of the gun barrel. Do we accomplish in war what we say we will? After the party is over, what are war's real effects? This is the story of the Afterparty, in the words of those uniquely able to pass judgment.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Guatemala: the Quetzal; title: Nicaragua: happy William Walker Day; title: Panama: you create monsters and then they turn on you; title: Serbia: do you have the balls to finish this?; title: Afghanistan: without peace in the world, we have nothing; title: Indochina: I want them to hit everything; title: Iraq: there is no state; title: Afterword: look up, Hannah; title: Endnotes.