The Spoils of War
Title | The Spoils of War PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Cockburn |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2021-09-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1839763655 |
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 Spoils of War
Title | The Spoils of War PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita |
Publisher | Public Affairs |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2016-09-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1610396626 |
"It's striking how many of the presidents Americans venerate--Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name a few--oversaw some of the republic's bloodiest years. Perhaps it's because they looked out for important political causes. Or maybe they just looked out for themselves. This ... book puts some of America's greatest leaders under the microscope, [positing that] their calls for war, usually remembered as brave and noble, were in fact selfish and convenient"--
Dividing the Spoils
Title | Dividing the Spoils PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2012-10-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0199931526 |
A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Great's vast empire was torn asunder in the years after his death
Spoils of War
Title | Spoils of War PDF eBook |
Author | T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0847686051 |
In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of 'war, ' experienced daily by women of color
Spoils of War
Title | Spoils of War PDF eBook |
Author | Kari Gregg |
Publisher | Noble Romance Publishing LL |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1605921734 |
Enslaved during the invasion of the rival King of Herra, Micah cut off his emotions and adapted to his new life in servitude. Xerxes, the Herran King, abuses his captive to keep the neighboring kingdom of Alekia under his yoke, but after Micah nearly dies when plague sweeps Herra, the Alekian King sends Eli to bring his beloved son home.Institutionalized by his slavery, unable to cope with his freedom, Micah seeks to please the new master he's found in Eli throughout their harrowing journey to a homeland he no longer remembers. Eli protects the young man and introduces Micah to the pleasures denied him as a prisoner.Will Micah accept his noble birthright when they reach Alekia, and more importantly, can he accept Eli as the devoted slave his father has given him rather than the master he's come to love?
The Spoils of War
Title | The Spoils of War PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Dean Foster |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2014-06-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0575131756 |
After millennia of relentless war, the union of alien races called the Weave was on the verge of winning a decisive victory - thanks to their new allies from Earth, who in a mere handful of centuries had proved masters of combat. But then the birdlike Wais scholar Lalelelang found disturbing evidence that Humans might not adapt so easily to peace - that natural Human aggression would next be turned against the Weave, unless they were once again confined to fight amongst themselves. When her field research revealed the existence of a secret group of powerfully telepathic Humans called the Core, it looked as if Lalelelang would be the first victim in a new war between Humans and their allies. But just as her fate was sealed, a lone Core commander took a chance on her intelligence and compassion, gambling the fate of Humanity on the possibility that together they could both find an alternative to a galaxy-wide bloodbath...
Spoils of War
Title | Spoils of War PDF eBook |
Author | John Tirman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Arms transfers |
ISBN | 9780684826264 |