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The Failure of America's Foreign Wars Paperback – January 1, 1997

by Richard M. Ebeling (Editor), Jacob G. Hornberger (Editor)

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The Failure of America's Foreign Wars strips away the truth-obscuring nostalgia for America's foreign wars and shows the perverse and bloody consequences of these wars.

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"'The Failure of America's Foreign Wars' contains a vitally important message and makes for genuinely refreshing reading. The two marvelously insightful articles contributed by Ralph Raico alone--one the case for an America First foreign policy and the turning point in American foreign policy--are well worth the price of admission." -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Professor of Economics, University of Nevada Las Vegas

"The failure of America's foreign wars has been the vry freedoms they sought to preserve. For a wide audience, these collected essays summarize the historical revisionism which has gradually exposed the propaganda, lies, and myths that led America into World Wars I and II. As true libertarians know, war has ever been the health of the state. In our own time, it is clear that wars, hot and cold, have been responsible for the enormous taxes, deficits, and governmental spending that have created the welfare-warfare state so beloved by the social engineers and economic planners of the federal bureaucracy. If foreign wars have been America's chief failure, its great success has been the historic peace and freedoms, the individual liberties and responsibility, to which we must now return. All this, and more, the editors and contributors point out well and clearly in their valuable collection of original articles and book reviews." -- Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr., Professor of History, Emeritus, State University of New York at Albany

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Richard M. Ebeling (co-editor) is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, and serves as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation, a libertarian foundation in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the co-editor (along with Jacob G. Hornberger)of The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration; The Tyranny of Gun Control; and The Dangers of Socialized Medicine.

Jacob G. Hornberger (co-editor) is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia. His editorials have appeared in the Washington Post; Las Vegas Tribune Journal; Charlotte Observer; and others.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Future of Freedom Foundation (January 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 383 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0964044765
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0964044760
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF). FFF's mission is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.

Mr. Hornberger was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at The Foundation for Economic Education, publisher of The Freeman.

In 1989, Mr. Hornberger established The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is a regular writer for FFF's monthly journal Future of Freedom, writes a daily blog, and other commentaries. His editorials have appeared in the Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, La Presna San Diego, El Nuevo Miami Herald, and many others, both in the United States and in Latin America.

Mr. Hornberger has delivered speeches and engaged in debates about free-market principles with groups all over the United States, as well as Canada, England, Europe, and Latin America, including Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Argentina.

He has also advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News' Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows. He appeared regularly as a commentator on Fox News' legal commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano's Internet-based show Freedom Watch.

Mr. Hornberger is co-editor of five books that have been published by The Future of Freedom Foundation (www.fff.org) and author of The Kennedy Autopsy, Regime Change, and The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National Security State.

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jay pister
A rare truth is told
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2014
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This book should be required reading for all students. .whether they are history majors or not. It is a shame for all of the sacrifices to make and keep America free, that so little is understood or taught in school. I am writing my own history book. .based upon major earth shaking revelations like what Richard Ebeling and historians like him have written.

In a nut shell.. we were lied to about our entry into WWll. . We knew about Pearl Harbor well in advance. let Stalin dupe us into participating in a whole alternate holocaust. with millions of deaths.... (Allied and Soviet citizens perished ) millions of POW Russians perished . We had to hide our participation. To help hide this we let him keep 100,000 Allied soldiers...and they were sent to a fate worse than death..40,000 of these were American.

Of course, Johnson lied about Viet Nam ..and the Gulf of Tonkin .incident .. that was a no brainer....and if one digs deeply enough they will see that the military industrial complex set in motion the actions that killed Kennedy.(not necessarily in this book ) They helped Stalin develop the nuclear bomb .with uranium and technological secrets ..(lend lease) ..

The biggest tragedy of all is that history, real history, is not taught in our schools. Well fed and well paid professors make good money to shovel pure manure to the minds of our students.

This book and Jacob Hornberger's organization , The Future of Freedom Foundation should be upheld in all of our learning institutions and all students in America should have mandatory reading of the contents.

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KentuckianaKinist
Superb Work Concerning America's Violent Foregin Policy
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2013
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I purchased this work to better acquaint myself with the folly of most of the wars that the United States government has engaged in. I was very pleased with this volume. I learned several valuable things from this book. This would be a good book to help a conservative Republican who is a blind supporter of America's "good wars". My only complaint is that this book was published before the whole 9/11-Afganistan-Iraq-War on Terror debacle, and thus does not cover that. I am a libertarian, American patriot, and author and I chose to recommend this book in chapter 14 of my own work, A Bible Based View Of Liberty And Free Governments. I highly recommend this work.

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I liked it but....
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I did enjoy this book and found a couple of the speeches,writings to be very insightful. The inclusion of Herbert Spencer, and James Madison were nice generational tie- ins. Some of Jacob Hornberger's more personal VMI stories were compelling and Ralph Raico and Robert Higgs are both wonderful.
So why three stars?
The content was 4 1/2 stars, the individual writers were 5 stars, but it did seem to be repetitive and I found myself skipping and jumping back to different spots. I guess with this type of compilation that is not a terrible thing but for me annoying. That said I would recommend the content but for me the style was so -so.

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A compendium of government folly
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This e-book contains numerous essays on the disaster of our foreign policy and military action during the last hundred years. In essence, the authors contend that the more wars we fight, the less free we become along with a depleted health of our economy. Essays include James Madison's warning of presence of standing armies and Ralph Raico's articles on the folly of war. A great set of works one can read on an e-book. The book also contains a bibliography, end notes and index. Five stars.

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History revealed!
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Great explanation of how the US strayed from the foreign policies envisioned by the founders and the effects on our country - huge beauracracies, loss of freedom, and excess interference in world affairs.

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Excellent Read and Valuable Reference Book
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Affords and understanding of, and appreciation for the days before the U.S. became a great power and an international bully. A lucid explanation of why America's founding fathers never envisioned or wanted the country to become an empire or the world's policeman, perpetually wasting blood and treasure on futile international adventures. Could do more to link such ventures with the curtailment of freedom and impoverishment domestically.

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Leburn Flurry
Five Stars
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Very enlightening and an eye opener to myths of history.

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The politicians should read this book and take it to heart.

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木村貴
「正しい戦争」への異議
Reviewed in Japan on March 5, 2017
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建国時の理念に基づき国外での軍事介入を戒めてきた米国は、歴史が下るにつれ、その禁を破っていく。それが決定的になったのは二度の世界大戦である。米政府はそれらを「正しい戦争」だったと主張し、体制派の歴史家を通じ国民にそのように教え込む。本書はそうした公式の歴史観に異議を唱える。

序文でリチャード・エベリングは、歴史における「もし」はあくまで推測にとどまるとしながらも、将来同じ過ちを繰り返さないためには過去の行動に学ぶ必要があるとして、以下のような「もし」を例示する。（数字は位置ナンバー）

もし米国が第一次世界大戦に参戦する確信が英国になかったら、1916年か1917年初めに交戦国は和解できなかっただろうか。そうすれば大戦後のドイツ情勢は現実と大きく異なり、ヒトラーの権力掌握を防げたのではないだろうか。(275)

もしチャーチル英首相が米国の第二次世界大戦参戦にあれほど熱心でなく、ルーズベルト大統領が米国を戦争に仕向けなければ、（米参戦のきっかけとなった真珠湾攻撃の前年の）1940年夏に和解が成立していなかっただろうか。(279)

米国が参戦しなければ、ヒトラーは欧州の中央を一時支配しただろうが、ナチ党は「最終的解決」の当初案どおり、欧州のユダヤ人をマダガスカル島に移送できたかもしれない。野蛮だが、死の収容所の現実よりましではないだろうか。(280)

さらに、もしヒトラーのドイツがスターリンのソ連に対し攻撃に転じていたら、両全体主義大国は消耗し、自滅したのではないだろうか。そして両国の占領地域に住む人々は、いずれ自由になったのではないだろうか。(283)

ルーズベルトが1941年に日本と和解していれば、真珠湾攻撃はなかったのではないだろうか。日本は東アジアで力を増しただろうが、和解で日中戦争が終われば、中国社会は安定し、毛沢東の共産党による征服はなかったのではないか。(286)

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