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Yet as the United States crossed the Rubicon in the mid-twentieth century to become the guarantor of global order, it began fighting wars in many more places than before. As it did so, America’s worldwide presence became as brutal as the imperial history from which the country itself emerged. For a while after 1945, the whole world became “Indian country” as the United States exported homegrown violence and adapted the no-holds-barred practices such as genocide and torture refined over centuries by European empires fighting counterinsurgent small wars or conventional big ones.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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