Humane by Samuel Moyn6/2/2023 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. The United States exercises dominion everywhere. It hardly matters who's president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." -Jackson Lears, The New York Review of BooksĪ prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war.
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