Useful enemies: when waging wars is more important than winning them
by Keen, David
Keen investigates why conflicts are so prevalent and so intractable, even when one side has much greater military resources. He asks who benefits from wars-- whether economically, politically, or psychologically-- and argues that in order to bring them successfully to an end we need to understand the complex vested interests on all sides.
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- Full title :Useful enemies : when waging wars is more important than winning them / David Keen.
Summary
Keen investigates why conflicts are so prevalent and so intractable, even when one side has much greater military resources. He asks who benefits from wars-- whether economically, politically, or psychologically-- and argues that in order to bring them successfully to an end we need to understand the complex vested interests on all sides.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 311 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780300183719, 0300183712
- oclc:ocn984793677
- Dewey Decimal:355.02/7
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Resource wars -- Aiding resource wars? -- Vietnam: useful enemies and useless allies -- Afghanistan -- The political functions of war -- Wars within wars -- The politics of permanent emergency -- Case study of a permanent emergency: the United States -- Shame and the psychological functions of violence -- Conclusion.
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