ISBN:

• 9781476777863
• 1476777861

Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Description: viii, 438 pages ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Tremors
• The new American way of war
• Pirates!
• Wanna go to Gitmo?
• Lawyers with guns
• The full spectrum
• The secret war
• Future warfare
• What's an army for?
• What we've made it
• How we got here
• Putting war into a box
• Taming war
• An optimistic enterprise
• Making war
• Making the state
• Un-making sovereignty
• Making the military
• An age of uncertainty
• Counting the costs
• Car bombs and radioactive sushi
• War everywhere, law nowhere?
• Institutional costs
• Managing war's paradoxes.

Control Number: 1660306

Subjects:

• Armed Forces -- Operations other than war.
• Just war doctrine.
• Militarism -- United States.
• National security -- United States.
• Strategic culture -- United States.
• Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
• United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
• United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
• United States -- Military policy.
• War (International law) -- Philosophy.

Genre: Anecdotes.