The Militarized Society: No End to War?

This book explores the long and complex history of antiwar movements in the United States, with emphasis on the 1960s sustained protests against the Vietnam War as historical and conceptual point of departure. While some movements have enjoyed short-term success, helping to end particular wars and other types of U.S. foreign interventions, the general outcome has been that of failure: no movement has been able to overturn the powerful institutions of warmaking in American society - nor in f...