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Copy Link : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/0374173702 Book Synopsis : "[A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." ―Jackson Lears, The New York Review of BooksA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who’s president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere.In Humane:How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical―to ban torture and limit civilian casualties―have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? To advance this case, Moyn looks back at a century and a half of passionate arguments about the ethics of using force. In the nineteenth century, the founders of the Red Cross struggled mightily to make war less lethal even as they acknowledged its inevitability. Leo Tolstoy prominently opposed their efforts, reasoning that war needed to be abolished, not reformed―and over the subsequent c
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"[A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." ―Jackson Lears, The New York Review of BooksA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who’s president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere.In Humane:How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical―to ban torture and limit civilian casualties―have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? To advance this case, Moyn looks back at a century and a half of passionate arguments about the ethics of using force. In the nineteenth century, the founders of the Red Cross struggled mightily to make war less lethal even as they acknowledged its inevitability. Leo Tolstoy prominently opposed their efforts, reasoning that war needed to be abolished, not reformed―and over the subsequent c
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
"A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of
war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist
bromides."―Jakson Lears, The New York Review of BooksA prominent historian exposes the
dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war.
With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It
hardly matters who’spresident or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power.
The United States exercises dominion everywhere.In Humane:How the United States Abandoned Peace
and Reinvented War, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war
more ethical―toban torture and limit civilian casualties―hae only shored up the military
enterprise and made it sturdier? To advance this case, Moyn looks back at a century and a half of
passionate arguments about the ethics of using force. In the nineteenth century, the founders of the Red
Cross struggled mightily to make war less lethal even as they acknowledged its inevitability. Leo Tolstoy
prominently opposed their efforts, reasoning that war needed to be abolished, not reformed―an
over the subsequent century, a popular movement to abolish war flourished on both sides of the Atlantic.
Eventually, however, reformers shifted their attention from opposing the crime of war to opposing war
crimes, with fateful consequences.The ramifications of this shift became apparent in the post-9/11 era.
By that time, the US military had embraced the agenda of humane war, driven both by the availability of
precision weaponry and the need to protect its image. The battle shifted from the streets to the
courtroom, where the tactics of the war on terror were litigated but its foundational assumptions went
without serious challenge. These trends only accelerated during the Obama and Trump presidencies.
Even as the two administrations spoke of American power and morality in radically different tones, they
ushered in the second decade of the “foever”war.Humane is the story of how America went
off to fight and never came back, and how armed combat was transformed from an imperfect tool for
resolving disputes into an integral component of the modern condition. As American wars have become
more humane, they have also become endless. This provocative book argues that this development
might not represent progress at all.
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