Includes bibliographical references and index.

Liberation or dominance?: the ideology of U.S. national security policy / Arnold A. Offner -- Variations on the American way of war / James Kurth -- The politics of conventional warfare in an unconventional age / George H. Quester -- Shield and sword: U.S. strategic forces and doctrine since 1945 / Tami Davis Biddle -- Elusive bargain: the pattern of U.S. civil-military relations since World War II / Andrew J. Bacevich -- The evolution of the national security state: ubiquitous and endless / Anna Kasten Nelson -- Intelligence for empire / John Prados -- The military-industrial complex: lobby and trope / Alex Roland -- Paying for global power: costs and benefits of postwar U.S. military spending / Benjamin O. Fordham -- The changing moral contract for military service / James Burk -- American insecurity: dissent from the "long war" / Charles Chatfield -- The "good" war: national security and American culture / William L. O'Neill.

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