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War Machine

Daniel Pick
War Machine Book PDF

Author : Daniel Pick
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0300067194

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This intriguing study examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the terms of modern thought on the nature of military conflict. Daniel Pick brings together philosophical and historical models of war with fictions of invasion, propaganda from the Great War, interpretations of shellshock and speculations about the biological value of conquest. He discusses the work of such familiar commentators as Clausewitz, Engels, and Treitschke, and examines little-known writings by Proudhon, De Quincey, Ruskin, Valery, and many others, culminating in the extraordinary dialogue between Freud and Einstein, Why War? He analyses Victorian fears of French contamination through the Channel Tunnel as well as the widespread continuing dread of German domination. And he charts the history of the pervasive European belief that war is beneficial or at least functionally necessary. A central theme of the book is the disturbing relationship between machinery and destruction. Visions of relentless technological 'progress' and the inexorable advance of the military-industrial complex often seem to distort our understanding of war, even to reduce it to a sophisticated game played out by high-precision automata. Pick explores both the reassuring and troubling aspects of such representations. Shorn of human agency or responsibility, war apparently threatens to become technologically unstoppable, the remorseless 'perfect abattoir' of the industrial age. War Machine explores the enduring historical fascination with - and recoil from -brutal mechanical slaughter, and the modern aquiescence in, and enthusiasm for (in Rilke's phrase), 'these days of monstrously accelerated dying'.

Confronting the War Machine

Michael S. Foley
Confronting the War Machine Book PDF

Author : Michael S. Foley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854360

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Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds--the core of Johnson's constituency.

Britain's War Machine

David Edgerton
Britain s War Machine Book PDF

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199911509

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The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world's most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small. Edgerton shows that Britain fought on many fronts and its many home fronts kept it exceptionally well supplied with weapons, food and oil, allowing it to mobilize to an extraordinary extent. It created and deployed a vast empire of machines, from the humble tramp steamer to the battleship, from the rifle to the tank, made in colossal factories the world over. Scientists and engineers invented new weapons, encouraged by a government and prime minister enthusiastic about the latest technologies. The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat at the hands of less well-equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price. Putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, Britain's War Machine demolishes timeworn myths about wartime Britain and gives us a groundbreaking and often unsettling picture of a great power in action.

American War Machine

Peter Dale Scott
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Author : Peter Dale Scott
Publisher : War and Peace Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 074255595X

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Scott explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. He presents compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America's long-standing involvement with the global drug traffic.

The Spoils of War

Andrew Cockburn
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Author : Andrew Cockburn
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839763656

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Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine—for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the world are meant to be the righteous arbiters of justice. Against this background, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the true intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the US Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: as profoundly squalid as it is terrifyingly deadly.

The Operators

Michael Hastings
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Author : Michael Hastings
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101575482

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The inspiration for the Netflix original movie War Machine, starring Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Kingsley From the author of The Last Magazine, a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of our military commanders, their high-stake maneuvers, and the politcal firestorm that shook the United States. In the shadow of the hunt for Bin Laden and the United States’ involvement in the Middle East, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living large. His loyal staff liked to call him a “rock star.” During a spring 2010 trip, journalist Michael Hastings looked on as McChrystal and his staff let off steam, partying and openly bashing the Obama administration. When Hastings’s article appeared in Rolling Stone, it set off a political firestorm: McChrystal was unceremoniously fired. In The Operators, Hastings picks up where his Rolling Stone coup ended. From patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands to senior military advisors’ late-night bull sessions to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building, Hastings presents a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of what he fears is an unwinnable war. Written in prose that is at once eye-opening and other times uncannily conversational, readers of No Easy Day will take to Hastings’ unyielding first-hand account of the Afghan War and its cast of players.

America's War Machine

James McCartney,Molly Sinclair McCartney
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Author : James McCartney,Molly Sinclair McCartney
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466878761

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A veteran Washington reporter reveals how years of military-slanted domestic and foreign policy have turned the U.S. into a perpetual war machine. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared to leave the White House in 1961, he did so with an ominous message for the American people about the "disastrous rise" of the military-industrial complex. Fifty years later, the complex has morphed into a virtually unstoppable war machine, one that dictates U.S. economic and foreign policy in a direct and substantial way. Based on his experiences as an award-winning Washington-based reporter covering national security, James McCartney presents a compelling history, from the Cold War to present day that shows that the problem is far worse and far more wide-reaching than anything Eisenhower could have imagined. Big Military has become "too big to fail" and has grown to envelope the nation's political, cultural and intellectual institutions. These centers of power and influence, including the now-complicit White House and Congress, have a vested interest in preparing and waging unnecessary wars. The authors persuasively argue that not one foreign intervention in the past 50 years has made us or the world safer. With additions by Molly Sinclair McCartney, a fellow journalist with 30 years of experience, America's War Machine provides the context for today's national security state and explains what can be done about it.

Hitler's War Machine

William Carr
Hitler s War Machine Book PDF

Author : William Carr
Publisher : Salamander Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0861018486

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First published Hamlyn, 1976. In 1939 Adolf Hitler unleashed the most formidable fighting force the world had ever known, yet this proved to be a failure. This book explores the impact of these forces and examines how and why they met their downfall

Working-Class War

Christian G. Appy
Working Class War Book PDF

Author : Christian G. Appy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860113

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No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe

The Hollywood War Machine

Carl Boggs
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Author : Carl Boggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351543606

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The newly expanded and revised edition of The Hollywood War Machine includes wide-ranging exploration of numerous popular military-themed films that have appeared in the close to a decade since the first edition was published. Within the Hollywood movie community, there has not been even the slightest decline in well-financed pictures focusing on warfare and closely-related motifs. The second edition includes a new chapter on recent popular films and another that analyzes the relationship between these movies and the bourgeoning gun culture in the United States, marked in recent years by a dramatic increase in episodes of mass killings.

War Machine

Andy Remic
War Machine Book PDF

Author : Andy Remic
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1844165221

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Alcoholic private investigator Keegan takes a case located on a violent colony world on the outskirts of the galaxy--requiring he team up with members of his old military unit--in the hopes of finding out who brutally murdered his family.

Shadow of the War Machine

Kristin Bailey
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Author : Kristin Bailey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442468061

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"Meg has searched the globe for answers about why her parents were killed; where her grandfather disappeared to; and above all the identity of the man with the clockwork mask behind all of this treachery. At last, she has clues that will lead her to the shocking truth"--

Ethics, Security, and the War Machine

Ned Dobos
Ethics Security and the War Machine Book PDF

Author : Ned Dobos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192604224

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If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization—or military abolition—would seem to be the appropriate course to take. On the other hand, if war is sometimes justified, as many believe, then it must be permissible to prepare for it by creating and maintaining a military establishment. Yet this view that the justifiability of war-making is also sufficient to justify war-building is mistaken. This book addresses questions of jus ante bellum, or justice before war. Under what circumstances is it justifiable for a polity to prepare for war by militarizing? When (if ever) and why (if at all) is it morally permissible to create and maintain the potential to wage war? In doing so it highlights the ways in which a civilian population compromises its own security in maintaining a permanent military establishment, explores the moral and social costs of militarization, and evaluates whether or not these costs are worth bearing.

U.S. War Machine

Chuck Austen
U S War Machine Book PDF

Author : Chuck Austen
Publisher : Marvel Comics Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0785108548

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U.S. War Machine by Chuck Austen Pdf

Fired by Tony Stark and recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D., James Rhodes must lead a team of rookies against the evil alliance known as A.I.M. and the carnage begins with a team of War Machines!

The US War Machine

James E. Dornan
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Author : James E. Dornan
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Arms transfers
ISBN : 0517535432

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Describes and illustrates major weapons of the United States armed forces.