TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dower,John W.
TI  - Cultures of war: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq 
SN  - 9780393061505 (hbk.)
AV  - E745 .D69 2010
U1  - 355.00973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton, New Press
KW  - War and society
KW  - United States
KW  - Strategic culture
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Military policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-551) and index
N2  - A groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times. Over recent decades, Pulitzer-winning historian John W. Dower has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. Here he examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events--Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging: failures of intelligence and imagination, wars of choice and "strategic imbecilities," faith-based secular thinking as well as more overtly holy wars, the targeting of noncombatants, and the almost irresistible logic--and allure--of mass destruction. Dower also sets the U.S. occupations of Japan and Iraq side by side in strikingly original ways. He offers comparative insights into individual and institutional behavior and pathologies that transcend "cultures" in the more traditional sense, and that ultimately go beyond war-making alone.--From publisher description
ER  -