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In the new american militarism, bacevich examines the origins and implications of this misguided enterprise. There was a time in recent memory, most notably while the socalled vietnam syndrome infected the american body politic, when republican and democratic administrations alike viewed with real. The end of american exceptionalism ebook written by andrew j. This bipartisan commitment to maintaining american supremacy has become a political signature of our times. Americanled free world cracked up, and the united states reached a. He shows how american militarism emerged as a reaction to the vietnam war, when various groups in american society soldiers, politicians on the make, intellectuals, strategists, christian evangelicals, even purveyors of pop culturecame. In a challenging, provocative book, andrew bacevich reconsiders the assumptions and purposes governing the exercise of american global power. From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nations problemsthe limits of power identifies a profound triple crisis facing america. From that strategic position, a prince of moscow who could gain control of the three rivers could control nearly all of european russia.
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