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The Normalization of War

By Andrew J. Bacevich, Tomdispatch.com. Posted April 21, 2005.


Americans have become enthralled by -- and found themselves in thrall to -- military power and the idea of global military supremacy.

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Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations and director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University. A graduate of West Point and a Vietnam veteran, he has a doctorate in history from Princeton and was a Bush Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is the author of several books, including the just published "The New American Militarism, How Americans Are Seduced by War."

The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War, copyright © 2005 by Andrew J. Bacevich. Used by permission of the author and Oxford University Press, Inc.

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