Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, (Macmillan, 2021) Can a “humane” war ever be fought? Or is such a question doomed to irrelevance by an innate contradiction in its terms? These are two of the driving questions in Samuel Moyn’s Humane, a polemic against the US-led march into anContinue reading “Does the “Good Fight” Exist? Ethics and the Future of War”
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Oh Lord, for Alliance!
Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliancesby Mira Rapp-Hooper (Harvard University Press, 272 pp., $28) American power is based on a paradox. There has never been a more prosperous and powerful country in the history of the world, but the security and prosperity of the United States depend on the cooperationContinue reading “Oh Lord, for Alliance!”
Nicholas J. Romanow 