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The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism 2006th Edition

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This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis blends history, economics, and politics to challenge the prevailing accounts of the rise of U.S. militarism. While acknowledging the contributory role of some of the most widely-cited culprits, this study explores the bigger, but largely submerged, picture: the political economy of war and militarism.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0230602282
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0230602281
  3. Edition
    2006th
  4. Publisher
    Palgrave Macmillan
  5. Publication date
    June 14, 2007
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    8.5 x 5.5 x 0.64 inches
  8. Print length
    296 pages
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  • Mo
    5.0 out of 5 stars No Excuses, Americans. (Read this book and wrote a school review on it).
    Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2014
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    I read this book and wrote a review on it for a class, so I thought I'd share the concise conclusion portion of it, instead of going too much into details and giving you too much information.

    Ismael Hossein-Zadeh's The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (2006) exposes the more legitimate and dangerous forces at work influencing US' unilateral militarist policies around the world, but especially in the Middle East. It addresses the influential military-industrial complex's critical role and those of associated businesses, who've stood to gain and profit from war and military expansion. This first occurred almost immediately after WWII and it changed and overthrew the approximately 150-year long-established relationship between the supply and demand for arms and war equipment. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and fearing the threat of peace, the military-industrial complex sought new forms of threats and enemies to exploit to justify not only the maintenance, but also the increase in military spending. It found new enemies in "rogue states," "Islamic militants," China, weapons of mass destruction, etc. From this emanated the military-industrial complex's alliance with their Zionist counterparts, creating the informal military-industrial-Likud alliance-the primary reason behind the provocation and instigation of conflict, war, violence, bloodshed, and so on, in the region. The author also talks about the two prevailing imperialist approaches toward US foreign policy (Trilateralists/multilateralists vs unilateral militarists) and their (at times) contentious struggle, over decades, to guide and control the course of US foreign policy. Ultimately, a lot of groups and individuals not only stand to gain and profit from the war economy, but are dependent on it for sustenance, including the American people. Hossein-Zadeh concludes that in order to bring about the end of the industrial-military-Likud and the industrial-military complex, the eradication of the profit motive from the arms industry and warfare needs to happen.
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  • Gabriel
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Critical Book For All Americans
    Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2006
    It is a difficult task to write a succinct review of a book such as Ismael Hossein-Zadeh has produced, and do justice to its critical pertinence in the daily lives of every American. But its relevance even to each occupant of planet Earth cannot, and should not, be dismissed or underestimated, for to do so is an invitation to the disaster so eloquently implied and presaged by its content.

    This immensely well documented and compiled work embodies a compendium of facts, brilliant writing and logical assumptions that will indeed lend credence to Chicken Little's exclamation - but not, however, that the sky is falling; rather that it indeed already has.

    The one misfortune of its publication is that it is priced at a level that seems to aim at academics with university expense accounts. If the publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, desires to best serve its readers beyond academia, they and the public would be very well served by its reprint in a paperback edition. To not do so would be akin to pricing smoke alarms beyond the budget of the average home owner.

    In this work, Mr. Hossein-Zadeh tracks the pre-WWII norm of antimilitarism that unofficially mandated the reduction of manpower to its prewar size after each conflict, to the emergence of current policy which established a doctrine supporting "1.5 million military personnel in 6,000 domestic bases and 702 bases in 130 countries." Including "about a dozen carrier task forces in the oceans and seas of the world." In this, he clearly describes the militarist's economic principle that peace is a curse that must have the stake of war driven through its heart - and not just once, but on a regularly recurring basis. This is accomplished by maintaining the citizenry in a constant state of fear and anxiety over manufactured and imaginary threats to national security.

    The author very adroitly sets forth a stunning array of damning (or encouraging - depending on your political/economic persuasion) data that clearly penetrates the mythology of America being a peaceful "democracy" - or its intention of spreading democracy peacefully.

    Being driven by 85,000 private contracting firms, he covers how DoD has co-opted an appalling number of educational institutions (350 colleges and universities) for Pentagon research programs that one can logically assume are not focused on creating a better soufflé.

    The author shows that, unlike war efforts of the past, with more clearly established justification, the current military behemoth "tends to undermine the economic base it is supposed to nurture. Furthermore, control of the massive amounts of national resources by the military-industrial complex tends to undermine democratic values, pervert republican principles, and curtail civil liberties [ala Guantanamo Bay, Extreme Rendition, et. al.]. It also tends to corrupt both policy and politics at home and abroad."

    For all of his impressive research and comprehensive documentation on a military industrial complex run amok, Mr. Hossein-Zadeh presents a very flowing and remarkably readable treatment on the subject. What could very well have been a dry treatise by a university professor of economics, is in reality so packed with remarkable and historically documented data that no open-minded reader can but stand in awe at what this nation has perpetrated under the camouflage of "national security." The author clearly presents, in a markedly unbiased manner, the inescapable reality that this professed lamb of alleged democracy speaks and acts as a dragon. His conclusions are eminently logical, and fortified with over 125 sources and 379 carefully documented citations.

    This book should occupy several places in any academic or public library: Reference; History; Economics and an as-yet nonexistent section labeled "Wakeup Call."

    Mr. Hossein-Zadeh documents:

    - the penetration of the Pentagon into the deepest and highest levels of government and education.

    - the nearly pervasive invasion of former high-ranking military officers and defense contractor executives into upper level policy making of the Bush and previous administrations.

    - how, unlike world military empires past and over 150 years of American history, the present US martial adventurism is not stimulated by the military sector, but rather by market-driven forces on the business side of the Military/Industrial Complex - an economic calculus of death for money.

    - that the "Blood for Oil" myth is essentially a red herring created by the neocons to the intent of diverting public attention from the genuine purposes of the current war, i.e., the exsanguination of the American taxpayers bloodstream into the pockets of the enormous beast of industrial militarism.

    - that peace is anathema to the ideals of current American policy simply because militaristic proponents believe there is more money and economic growth in war.

    The above and very many more findings are clearly not extracted, whole-cloth, from the author's imagination. Each is fortified with either direct quotes from the principals, or extensive documentation from official and/or credible sources. Liberally scattered amongst those well-ordered and factual citations are many logically deduced and thought provoking conclusions such as, "...not all militarists don military uniform. In fact, business and ideological beneficiaries and promoters of war, who do not have to face direct combat and death, tend to be more jingoistic and trigger-happy than professional military personnel who will have to face the horrors of warfare." And "Despite its apparent complexity, reducing international acts of terrorism and fostering global peace and stability would not be very difficult in the absence of this perverse dynamics of the business of war."

    In other words, take the profits out of war, and peace is the default.

    The author quite agilely connects the dots in an almost incomprehensibly interconnected web of neoconservative, military/industrial and militant Zionist players, all of which are virtually household names for anyone tuning in to mainstream media news. But he takes these players and vividly portrays the incestuous components of American militarism in a way that brings to sharp focus their pernicious, inbred, self-referencing purposes - intents that have literally sacrificed America on the alter of its own cannibalistic consumerism.

    This book could be a wakeup call, but it appears to be such that would awaken one to a burning house in which all the exits are blocked. It illustrates that the military-industrial complex has become not so much a case of the tail wagging the dog, as the tail bludgeoning the dog into oblivion.

    Oh, and if I haven't already mentioned this: PUBLISHER, you must make this work available in paperback at a price those who really need to read it can afford.
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  • Jm Leven
    5.0 out of 5 stars straight to the heart of the matter - and readable
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2007
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    I haven't had the opportunity to read all of this yet but on the strength of what excerpts I have read this is an essential work - original,lucid, readable by and of interest to almost everybody. The readable easy style must mask an enormous effort to produce a work that doesn't fall easily into familiar assumptions and ideological constraints. Another reviewer has summed it up so lucidly that I don't feel the need to add much more than my 5 stars, and I add also my plea to the other reviewer's - to have this at a price that could tempt the Average Joe to give it a try.
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