Paying The Human Costs Of War
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Author |
: Christopher Gelpi |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2009-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400830091 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400830095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paying the Human Costs of War by : Christopher Gelpi
From the Korean War to the current conflict in Iraq, Paying the Human Costs of War examines the ways in which the American public decides whether to support the use of military force. Contrary to the conventional view, the authors demonstrate that the public does not respond reflexively and solely to the number of casualties in a conflict. Instead, the book argues that the public makes reasoned and reasonable cost-benefit calculations for their continued support of a war based on the justifications for it and the likelihood it will succeed, along with the costs that have been suffered in casualties. Of these factors, the book finds that the most important consideration for the public is the expectation of success. If the public believes that a mission will succeed, the public will support it even if the costs are high. When the public does not expect the mission to succeed, even small costs will cause the withdrawal of support. Providing a wealth of new evidence about American attitudes toward military conflict, Paying the Human Costs of War offers insights into a controversial, timely, and ongoing national discussion.
Author |
: Homer Folks |
Publisher |
: Forgotten Books |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2018-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0267733569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780267733569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Human Costs of the War (Classic Reprint) by : Homer Folks
Excerpt from The Human Costs of the War Just as the war was ending a request came to me to make the best estimate then possible Of the needs of southern and southeastern Europe. The trips through Italy, Serbia, Greece, France, and Belgium for this purpose ended in April last, but the collee tion Of data and the effort to set the facts in their true proportions have continued to the date Of publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author |
: Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1908 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025380887 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis On War by : Carl von Clausewitz
Author |
: John M. Kinder |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2015-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226210094 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022621009X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paying with Their Bodies by : John M. Kinder
Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith in an American martial ideal—that war could be fought without permanent casualties, and that innovative technology could easily repair war’s damage. When Bagge was awarded his Purple Heart, however, military officials asked him to wear pants to the ceremony, saying that photos of the event should be “soft on the eyes.” Defiant, Bagge wore shorts. America has grappled with the questions posed by injured veterans since its founding, and with particular force since the early twentieth century: What are the nation’s obligations to those who fight in its name? And when does war’s legacy of disability outweigh the nation’s interests at home and abroad? In Paying with Their Bodies, John M. Kinder traces the complicated, intertwined histories of war and disability in modern America. Focusing in particular on the decades surrounding World War I, he argues that disabled veterans have long been at the center of two competing visions of American war: one that highlights the relative safety of US military intervention overseas; the other indelibly associating American war with injury, mutilation, and suffering. Kinder brings disabled veterans to the center of the American war story and shows that when we do so, the history of American war over the last century begins to look very different. War can no longer be seen as a discrete experience, easily left behind; rather, its human legacies are felt for decades. The first book to examine the history of American warfare through the lens of its troubled legacy of injury and disability, Paying with Their Bodies will force us to think anew about war and its painful costs.
Author |
: Homer Folks |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1990-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0849040531 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780849040535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Human Costs of the War by : Homer Folks
Author |
: Bulent Gokay |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2024-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040150535 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040150535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Costs of War by : Bulent Gokay
Human Costs of War documents and analyses the direct and indirect toll that war takes on civilians and their livelihoods, taking a human security approach exploring personal, economic, political and community security in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, in the contexts of the War on Terror and the New Cold War. The book offers an understanding of war through the recording and comprehension of its civilian casualties and evaluates whether the force used has been proportionate to the threat that prompted it and the concern for human welfare. In the 21st century, the power of the USA has declined, while countries such as China and India become more powerful. The global power balance has been altered in a fundamental way towards a multi-polar world system, with the West no longer able to enforce its policies abroad. Regional and global governance are not assured, and devastating wars have taken a heavy toll in terms of death, poverty and displacement, which feed into the cycle of long-term insecurity. The authors argue that it is important for any conflict to be understood not only in terms of the perpetrators of violence, or of the political and economic reasons behind it, but also in terms of its impact on the civilian population and their security, focusing on conflicts in the Middle East which followed 9/11 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The book will be of interest to academics, the public, the media, security agencies and international organisations. It will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students of International Relations, International Law, Security, Politics, Policing, Human Rights, Ethics, Peace Studies, Eastern Europe, American Studies and the Middle East.
Author |
: Frank Ledwidge |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2013-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300194883 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300194889 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Investment in Blood by : Frank Ledwidge
"In this follow-up to his much-praised book Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Frank Ledwidge argues that Britain has paid a heavy cost - both financially and in human terms - for its involvement in the Afghanistan war. Ledwidge calculates the high price paid by British soldiers and their families, taxpayers in the United Kingdom, and, most importantly, Afghan citizens, highlighting the thousands of deaths and injuries, the enormous amount of money spent bolstering a corrupt Afghan government, and the long-term damage done to the British military's international reputation. In this hard-hitting exposé, based on interviews, rigorous on-the-ground research, and official information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Ledwidge demonstrates the folly of Britain's extended participation in an unwinnable war. Arguing that the only true beneficiaries of the conflict are development consultants, international arms dealers, and Afghan drug kingpins, he provides a powerful, eye-opening, and often heartbreaking account of military adventurism gone horribly wrong."--
Author |
: Joshua S. Goldstein |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2005-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814731628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814731627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Real Price of War by : Joshua S. Goldstein
Calculates and expounds on the costs to individual Americans of the War on Terror Are Americans in denial about the costs of the War on Terror? In The Real Price of War, Joshua S. Goldstein argues that we need to face up to what the war costs the average American—both in taxes and in changes to our way of life. Goldstein contends that in order to protect the United States from future attacks, we must fight—and win—the War on Terror. Yet even as President Bush campaigns on promises of national security, his administration is cutting taxes and increasing deficit spending, resulting in too little money to eradicate terrorism and a crippling burden of national debt for future generations to pay. The Real Price of War breaks down billion-dollar government expenditures into the prices individual Americans are paying through their taxes. Goldstein estimates that the average American household currently pays $500 each month to finance war. Beyond the dollars and cents that finance military operations and increased security within the U.S., the War on Terror also costs America in less tangible ways, including lost lives, reduced revenue from international travelers, and budget pressures on local governments. The longer the war continues, the greater these costs. In order to win the war faster, Goldstein argues for an increase in war funding, at a cost of about $100 per household per month, to better fund military spending, homeland security, and foreign aid and diplomacy. Americans have been told that the War on Terror is a war without sacrifice. But as Goldstein emphatically states: “These truths should be self-evident: The nation is at war. The war is expensive. Someone has to pay for it.”
Author |
: Scott Sigmund Gartner |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2021-07-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107075283 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107075289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Costly Calculations by : Scott Sigmund Gartner
Considers war initiation, wartime politics, war policies and war termination through the complex roles played by citizen wartime casualties.
Author |
: David Vine |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2021-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520385689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520385683 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The United States of War by : David Vine
2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases—a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.