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Sto caricando le informazioni... House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power (2006)di James Carroll
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. IN progress: Carroll begins by discussing how decisions were made with regard to daylight versus night-time bombing and the ethics (or lack thereof) in bombing civilians, i.e. bombing for effect on morale etc. I had no idea of the strong influences that inter-service rivalry had on strategic and often tactical decision-making. I guess I'm naive, but that was truly depressing. Kennedy's laudable attempt to have some kind of arms control agreement with Russia over nuclear weapons was tempered by the necessity of "buying off" the hawks, both in the Pentagon and in Congress. The Pentagon was promised more military spending and virtually unlimited underground tests, and Congressmen were guaranteed governmental sponsorship of military spending in their districts. All this had the net effect of continuing an arms race that Eisenhower warned against and Kennedy didn't want. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In this book, Carroll advances a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has changed this country more. He marshals a trove of often chilling evidence, recounting how "the Building" and its denizens achieved what Eisenhower called "a disastrous rise of misplaced power"--The unprecedented bombing of Germany and Japan during World War II to the "shock and awe" of Iraq. He charts the U.S. nuclear buildup, which far outpaced that of the USSR and has outlived it. He reveals how consistently the Building has found new enemies just as old threats--and funding--evaporate. He demonstrates how Pentagon policy brought about U.S. indifference to genocide during the 1990s. And he shows how the forces that attacked the Pentagon on 9/11 were set in motion exactly sixty years earlier, on September 11, 1941, when ground was broken for the house of war.--From publisher description. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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