The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic VictoriesRoutledge, 2017 M07 5 - 450 páginas The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the lifetime struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries; the hidden economic costs of inflation, debts, and taxes; and more generally the damages caused to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at large. The new edition is now available in paperback, with a number of new essays. It represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce the veils of myth and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the cost to liberty.Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become limited in scope and power. In the spirit of these theorems by Mises, the contributors to this volume consider the costs of war generally and assess specific corrosive effects of major American wars since the Revolution. The first section includes chapters on the theoretical and institutional dimensions of the relationship between war and society, including conscription, infringements on freedom, the military as an engine of social change, war and literature, and the right of citizens to bear arms. The second group includes reconsiderations of Lincoln and Churchill, an analysis of the anti-interventionist idea in American politics, a discussion of the meaning of the "just war," an assessment of how World War I changed the course of Western civilization, and finally two eyewitness accounts of the true horrors of actual combat by |
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... foreign policy in America: Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign ...
... foreign policy in America: Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign ...
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... foreign policy, and "police actions.” I cannot speak for each contributor to the book as to the question of the principal theme of the book, but as editor, I chose to emphasize three wars, all "won" by the U.S. government: The Civil War ...
... foreign policy, and "police actions.” I cannot speak for each contributor to the book as to the question of the principal theme of the book, but as editor, I chose to emphasize three wars, all "won" by the U.S. government: The Civil War ...
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... foreign policy of a well-armed neutrality, with no military alliances which would drag the U.S. into unnecessary wars which do not constitute a clear and present danger to its security. One element of the "just war" theory is that it ...
... foreign policy of a well-armed neutrality, with no military alliances which would drag the U.S. into unnecessary wars which do not constitute a clear and present danger to its security. One element of the "just war" theory is that it ...
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... policy of Washington and Jefferson, nor is it advocated in this book. In fact, the original U.S. foreign policy was the same philosophy as that espoused by all people who believe in free trade, such as Cobden and Bright in England. The ...
... policy of Washington and Jefferson, nor is it advocated in this book. In fact, the original U.S. foreign policy was the same philosophy as that espoused by all people who believe in free trade, such as Cobden and Bright in England. The ...
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... foreign policy. We must have intellectuals who understand the ideas of freedom, can see through the false propaganda of government, can understand the danger of becoming the world policeman, and can understand the real costs of war, so ...
... foreign policy. We must have intellectuals who understand the ideas of freedom, can see through the false propaganda of government, can understand the danger of becoming the world policeman, and can understand the real costs of war, so ...
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2 Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms | 53 |
The AntiInterventionist Tradition in American Politics | 67 |
1775 and 1861 | 119 |
5 Rethinking Lincoln | 135 |
6 Did the South Have to Fight? | 145 |
7 War Reconstruction and the End of the Old Republic | 155 |
8 The SpanishAmerican War as Trial Run or Empire as Its Own Justification | 169 |
Conscription as the Keystone | 375 |
15 The Military as an Engine of Social Change | 389 |
American Writers Confront War | 399 |
17 The Culture of War | 417 |
18 Is Modern Democracy Warlike? | 425 |
Concealing the Costs of War Beneath the Veil of Inflation | 433 |
From Monarchy to Democracy | 455 |
Appendices | 495 |
The Turning Point | 203 |
Power and the Intellectuals | 249 |
Propaganda and World War | 301 |
12 Rethinking Churchill | 321 |
13 The Old Breed and the Costs of War | 361 |
Recommended Reading | 509 |
About the Contributors | 517 |
Index | 519 |
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