State vs. Defense

A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of conflict, helped fuel Islamist terror, and now threatens to bankrupt the nation. For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy, and the United States can no longer afford the dangers provoked. With a struggling economy biting at heels and international affairs in a precarious state of unprecedented scope, American citizens have to wonder; what's happened? State vs. Defense characterizes figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme: America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic. In the tradition of classics such as The Wise Men, and The Best and the Brightest, State vs. Defense explores how and why American leaders succumbed to the sirens of militarism, how the republic has been lost to an empire, and how the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower so famously forewarned has set us on a stark path of financial peril.

Preface                       
 
Introduction   
Chapter 1: Archetype
Chapter 2: The Wages of Fear           
Chapter 3: Seeing Reds         
Chapter 4: Inside Job 
Chapter 5: Rogue Orientalists
Chapter 6: Treaty-port Yanks
Chapter 7: War for Peace       
Chapter 8: Looking-Glass War          
Chapter 9: Madmen   
Chapter 10: Interregnum        
Chapter 11: 1983       
Chapter 12: Endgame
Chapter 13: Reformation       
Chapter 14: The Weight of Peace      
Chapter 15: Denouement       
Conclusion     
 
Notes  
Bibliography  
Acknowledgments     
Index