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The spoils of war : power, profit and the American war machine / Andrew Cockburn.
Van Pelt Library HV6432 .C6154 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cockburn, Andrew, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- War--Economic aspects--United States.
- War.
- War--Economic aspects.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
- United States--Politics and government--2017-2021.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 274 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Verso, an imprint of New Left Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers of Islamists. US Solders are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to act as the righteous arbiters of the rule of law. In What The Spoils of War Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the 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 he witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer's urgent financial requirements; the U.S. 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 "because it will do us good at budget time." Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: squalid, and at the same time terrifyingly dangerous.
- Contents:
- Part I: Warfare
- Part II: New cold war
- Part III: War on terror
- Part IV: Simple billion-dollar money-grubbing.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Penman Wood Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781839763656
- 1839763655
- OCLC:
- 1263794765
- Publisher Number:
- 99988820439
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