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Beyond all the other factors in the emergence of America’s novel and shocking form of belligerency, it was the cultural transformation that Hynes registered that made humane war imaginable. Concern for military excess, culturally peripheral before, gave the laws of war an importance they had never acquired under their own power. Yet while those laws would cleanse war of its historic brutality, their legacy would be not eternal peace but endless control.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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