The long war
Subtitle: a new history of U.S. national security policy since World War II
By: Andrew J. Bacevich, editor.
Contributors: Bacevich, A. J.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780231131582; 9780231505864
Subjects: National security -- United States; United States -- Military policy; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Liberation or dominance?: the ideology of U.S. national security policy / Arnold A. Offner; title: Variations on the American way of war / James Kurth; title: The politics of conventional warfare in an unconventional age / George H. Quester; title: Shield and sword: U.S. strategic forces and doctrine since 1945 / Tami Davis Biddle; title: Elusive bargain: the pattern of U.S. civil-military relations since World War II / Andrew J. Bacevich; title: The evolution of the national security state: ubiquitous and endless / Anna Kasten Nelson; title: Intelligence for empire / John Prados; title: The military-industrial complex: lobby and trope / Alex Roland; title: Paying for global power: costs and benefits of postwar U.S. military spending / Benjamin O. Fordham; title: The changing moral contract for military service / James Burk; title: American insecurity: dissent from the "long war" / Charles Chatfield; title: The "good" war: national security and American culture / William L. O'Neill.