Culturas de Guerra: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 11 de Septiembre, Iraq

TitleCulturas de Guerra: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 11 de Septiembre, Iraq
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsDower, John W.
Number of Pages640
PublisherPasado & Presente
CityBarcelona, Spain
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This book offers comparative insights into individual and institutional behavior and pathologies that transcend “cultures” in the more traditional sense, and that ultimately go beyond war-making alone. Dower examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events―Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging: failures of intelligence and imagination, wars of choice and “strategic imbecilities,” faith-based secular thinking as well as more overtly holy wars, the targeting of noncombatants, and the almost irresistible logic―and allure―of mass destruction. Dower’s new work also sets the U.S. occupations of Japan and Iraq side by side in strikingly original ways.

Translated TitleWar Cultures: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, September 11, Iraq
Reprint Edition2011
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