Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Moyn, Samuel
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Moyn, Samuel

Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane In the years since 9/11,...
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Author: Samuel Moyn
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Moyn, Samuel

Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

€28,40
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Moyn, Samuel

Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

€28,40
Author: Samuel Moyn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane

In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war, with the United States exercising dominion everywhere. In Humane, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical--to ban torture and limit civilian casualties--have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier?

To advance this case, Moyn looks back at a century and a half of passionate arguments about the ethics and law of using force. In the nineteenth century, the founders of the Red Cross struggled mightily to make war less lethal even as they acknowledged its inevitability. Leo Tolstoy prominently opposed their efforts, reasoning that war needed to be abolished, not reformed--and over the subsequent century, a popular movement to abolish war flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. Eventually, however, reformers shifted their attention from opposing the crime of war to opposing war crimes.

In the post-9/11 era, the U.S. military embraced the agenda of humane war, driven by both the availability of precision weaponry and the need to protect its image. The battle moved from the streets to the courtroom, where the tactics of the war on terror were litigated but the war's foundational assumptions went without serious challenge. These trends have only accelerated since. Even as the Obama and Trump administrations spoke of American power and morality in radically different tones, they ushered in the second decade of the "forever" war.

Humane is the story of how America went off to fight and never came back, and how armed combat was transformed from an imperfect tool for resolving disputes into an integral component of the modern condition. As American wars become more protracted, they are also becoming more humane. This provocative book argues that this development might not represent progress at all.

Author: Samuel Moyn
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/06/2022
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250858719
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