#A Nation Unmade by War. Tom Engelhardt

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A Nation Unmade by War Tom Engelhardt Publisher: Haymarket Books This is a Dark Luke Skywalker fanfic. Ancient Greece is rightly said to have How well its legions, who made and unmade emperors, knew how to introduce civilization to the vast lands they overran! Shaka's military success allowed him to build up a state that eventually controlled quite a lot of territory but he was unable to transition it into a nation state. Through incisive analysis and characteristic wit, Engelhardt ponders whether in this century, its citizenry and government will be unmade by them. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the “Soviet path”—pouring American treasure into the military,war, and national security—and so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff. As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and betterfunded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa, the United States has won nothing. I spent a lot of time on this Fanfic, and I must give my thanks to a book called "The shadow" Which basically inspired the beginning of the story for me. So here's the confounding thing about the American version of empire in the years when this country was often referred to as “the sole superpower,” when it was putting more money into its military than the next 10 nations combined: it's been an empire of chaos. Disclaimer: I obviously don't own freaking Star Wars. From its founding, the United States has been a nation made by wars. After years on the front lines, war and peace have become inextricable parts of a conflicting American cultural identity. If I did I probably would'nt even be writing this do to its mult million dollar franchise. So we' ve seen a little So, ultimately in the pre-modern world, wars probably unmade as many states and empires as they made. In 1964, a book entitledThe Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Again, war had created nothing, consolidated nothing; it had served merely to abase human nature and plunge nations into anarchy. General (US: Trade) Learn More.

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