Empire of defense : race and the cultural politics of permanent war /

Empire of Defense is an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American military engagement. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a course for decades of permanent conflict. Conflict, which t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Darda, Joseph (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Racism > United States. Militarism > United States. United States > History, Military > 20th century. United States > History, Military > 21st century. United States > Foreign relations > 20th century. United States > Foreign relations > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A perpetual wartime footing
How to tell a permanent war story
Antiwar liberalism against liberal war
Dispatches from the drug wars
Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome with human rights
The craft of counterinsurgent whiteness
Epilogue: Defense in the Fifth Domain.