The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic VictoriesRoutledge, 2017 M07 5 - 450 páginas The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the lifetime struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries; the hidden economic costs of inflation, debts, and taxes; and more generally the damages caused to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at large. The new edition is now available in paperback, with a number of new essays. It represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce the veils of myth and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the cost to liberty.Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become limited in scope and power. In the spirit of these theorems by Mises, the contributors to this volume consider the costs of war generally and assess specific corrosive effects of major American wars since the Revolution. The first section includes chapters on the theoretical and institutional dimensions of the relationship between war and society, including conscription, infringements on freedom, the military as an engine of social change, war and literature, and the right of citizens to bear arms. The second group includes reconsiderations of Lincoln and Churchill, an analysis of the anti-interventionist idea in American politics, a discussion of the meaning of the "just war," an assessment of how World War I changed the course of Western civilization, and finally two eyewitness accounts of the true horrors of actual combat by |
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... wrote a brilliant essay entitled "The Anatomy of the State" wherein he addressed this subject, and especially the role of the intellectual in justifying the State and its actions, which would include its wars: Of course, one method of ...
... wrote a brilliant essay entitled "The Anatomy of the State" wherein he addressed this subject, and especially the role of the intellectual in justifying the State and its actions, which would include its wars: Of course, one method of ...
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... wrote to and for that Remnant, which he recognized as a small group that was working to preserve liberty in America. That Remnant has kept the torch of liberty lit since the chaos of World War I forced the philosophy of freedom off ...
... wrote to and for that Remnant, which he recognized as a small group that was working to preserve liberty in America. That Remnant has kept the torch of liberty lit since the chaos of World War I forced the philosophy of freedom off ...
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... wrote about the Persian armies invading Greece. He marveled at the heroic efforts of the Greeks, who were outnumbered by a ratio of ten-to-one, but still defeated their invaders, and then resisted any impulse toward empire themselves ...
... wrote about the Persian armies invading Greece. He marveled at the heroic efforts of the Greeks, who were outnumbered by a ratio of ten-to-one, but still defeated their invaders, and then resisted any impulse toward empire themselves ...
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... wrote to his wife late in 1856, “In this enlightened age, there are few, I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral and political evil in any country.” As did many of his class in the border and ...
... wrote to his wife late in 1856, “In this enlightened age, there are few, I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral and political evil in any country.” As did many of his class in the border and ...
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... wrote to his mother: “How trifling were the wrongs complained of by our Revolutionary forefathers, in comparison with ours! If the mere imposition of a tax could raise such a tumult what should be the result of the terrible system of ...
... wrote to his mother: “How trifling were the wrongs complained of by our Revolutionary forefathers, in comparison with ours! If the mere imposition of a tax could raise such a tumult what should be the result of the terrible system of ...
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2 Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms | 53 |
The AntiInterventionist Tradition in American Politics | 67 |
1775 and 1861 | 119 |
5 Rethinking Lincoln | 135 |
6 Did the South Have to Fight? | 145 |
7 War Reconstruction and the End of the Old Republic | 155 |
8 The SpanishAmerican War as Trial Run or Empire as Its Own Justification | 169 |
Conscription as the Keystone | 375 |
15 The Military as an Engine of Social Change | 389 |
American Writers Confront War | 399 |
17 The Culture of War | 417 |
18 Is Modern Democracy Warlike? | 425 |
Concealing the Costs of War Beneath the Veil of Inflation | 433 |
From Monarchy to Democracy | 455 |
Appendices | 495 |
The Turning Point | 203 |
Power and the Intellectuals | 249 |
Propaganda and World War | 301 |
12 Rethinking Churchill | 321 |
13 The Old Breed and the Costs of War | 361 |
Recommended Reading | 509 |
About the Contributors | 517 |
Index | 519 |
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