![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The contemporary US military may leave a smaller body count than it did during, say, the Vietnam War, but it has also entered the third decade of a War on Terror across a so-called “global battlefield.” This scope is unprecedented. Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (FSG, 2021), has been the elimination of those earlier geographic and temporal guardrails on war. The consequence of this, Samuel Moyn argues in his polemical and epiphany-inducing book Over the course of the past two decades, American activists and government officials have sought to make war less cruel and more humane. But modern wars have also been horrifyingly unlimited in cruelty. Geographic and temporal limits have typically contained modern wars-rulers can ask their populace to risk lives and treasure only for so long before losing legitimacy. ![]()
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