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With America’s help, European dreams of a continent beyond military strife were finally realized. But the militarized standoff that counted as the Cold War’s version of peace in Europe coexisted with American wars in Asia and elsewhere. American internationalists such as Quincy Wright had argued for their country to be involved in the struggle for global peace. Perpetual war was the price. And it was pitilessly violent. The United States guaranteed the European peace by exporting to Asia the total-war tactics Europeans had previously used in colonial wars, and that Americans themselves had ...more
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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