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2020 LA Times Book Prize Finalist HistoryA provocative examination of how the US military has shaped our entire world from todays 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 Columbuss 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250year expansion of a global US empire Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories The United States of War demonstrates how US leaders across generations have locked the United States in a selfperpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the worlds largestever collection of foreign military basesa global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely Beyond exposing the profitmaking desires political interests racism and toxic masculinity underlying the countrys relationship to war and empire The United States of War shows how the long history of US military expansion shapes our daily lives from todays multitrilliondollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday US life The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American warswhich have left millions dead wounded and displacedwhile offering proposals for how we can end the fighting. 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